tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811228767705174709.post7654332422564976887..comments2023-06-19T03:55:20.088-04:00Comments on Boston Unitarian: Agapeslthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15780928540224945711noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811228767705174709.post-46240915192926143982009-01-18T08:50:00.000-04:002009-01-18T08:50:00.000-04:00Hi BU:Excellent post! As good a description of non...Hi BU:<BR/><BR/>Excellent post! As good a description of nonviolence action as I have ever read. You get right to the essence of it.<BR/><BR/>Three years ago I left my home in Brockport, NY and went to Montgomery, Alabama, and visited all the historic civil rights sites including King's church and his parsonage which was fire bombed.<BR/><BR/>They give tours of the parsonage to bus groups, but I arrived singly and on foot and the two women dosans explained how they could'nt give me a tour so I just spend 20 minutes chatting with them. As as I recollected my memories of the civil rights days, I started to weep and I apologized to the women who seemed to take my effusion of emotion in stride and they said, "Oh honey, don't worry about it, alot of people cry when they come here."<BR/><BR/>They are tears of sadness, tears of joy, tears of pride at what has been accomplished.<BR/><BR/>I am a fat, privleged, white 63 year old man from New York State and I cry when I think of the nonviolent civil rights movement in the United States.<BR/><BR/>King was a young man in his late 20s and 30s when he lead the nonviolent civil rights movement which has changed our country and the world. It is amazing, utterly amazing, and it is amazing that you have captured the essence of it so well in your post.<BR/><BR/>I feel blessed.<BR/><BR/>All the best,<BR/><BR/>David MarkhamDavid G. Markhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08336565533124142690noreply@blogger.com