Bambi

2018-07-13T01:19:31Z

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'''Bambi''' is a character from a novel titled ''Bambi, a Life in the Woods'' (originally published as ''Bambi. Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde''), written by Austrian author Felix Salten in 1923. Bambi is a male roe deer.

[[Walt Disney]] adapted the novel in an animated movie, named after the character, that was released in 1942. The storyline follows Bambi from the time of his birth to the birth of his fawns. It has been criticized for its anti-gun message, as Bambi's mother is famously shot dead by a hunter.

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Mulan

2018-07-13T01:17:34Z

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'''''Mulan''''' is a 1998 [[cartoon]] [[film]] released by the [[Walt Disney]] corporation, based on the Chinese poem [[The Ballad of Mulan]]. The film is set in [[China]] during an invasion by the [[Mongol Armies|Huns]].

Mulan is a young [[woman]] who, following the custom of her people, is sent to a matchmaker for an arranged [[marriage]], but is rejected as unworthy to marry for her clumsiness, which carries a scourge of dishonor on her family. Meanwhile, as the Huns invade China, her crippled father is drafted to fight the Huns. Mulan sneaks out of the house and disguises herself as a man to take the place of her father, and becomes a hero by helping defeat the Huns.

==Criticism==
The central message in Mulan is [[filial piety]], but with a feminist twist. The film frequently takes aim at the custom in her society that women are unfit to fight. This was most famously pointed out in Mike Pence's editorial regarding Mulan, in which he also points out that Bambi has an anti-gun message. Also worth pointing out is Shang, Mulan's superior, who seems to fall in love with Mulan even while believing that she is a boy.

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Harrison Ford

2018-07-13T01:12:43Z

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'''Harrison Ford''' (born July 13, 1942 in [[Chicago]]) is an American film actor. He made his first movie appearance in 1966 with the film ''Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round''. He is most famous for starring in the ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' and ''[[Star Wars]]'' film franchises. He is a staunch Liberal, a supporter of [[environmentalism|environmental causes]] and [[gun control]], and one of the many celebrities to get into a fight with President Donald Trump.

[[Image:Han Solo blaster.jpg|200 px|right|thumb|Harrison Ford as [[Han Solo]] in ''Star Wars''.]]

==External links==
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000148/ Harrison Ford at IMDB]
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Martin Luther King

2018-07-13T01:06:00Z

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Reverend '''Martin Luther King, Jr'''., Ph.D. (1929–1968) was by far the most important [[black people|black]] leader of the 1960s. Since his [[assassination]] in 1968, he has been the single most important exemplar of [[civil rights]] in [[America]]. King was the son of a [[Baptist]] minister and became a Baptist minister himself.<ref>King became the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]].</ref>

==Education==
King was educated at [[Boston University]], where he earned his advanced degree in theology. Years later, a committee of scholars appointed by the university concluded that some passages in his PhD dissertation had been plagiarized,<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/11/us/boston-u-panel-finds-plagiarism-by-dr-king.html Boston U. Panel Finds Plagiarism by Dr. King] but perhaps not deliberately.
- October 11, 1991</ref>
A book about the [[plagiarism]] was published by Pappas.<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Martin-Luther-King-Plagiarism-Story/dp/0961936452 The Martin Luther King Plagiarism Story</ref>
According to Ron Grossman, a ''Chicago Tribune'' staff writer:
*In 1990, rumors went around the professorial cocktail-party circuit that scholars preparing an edition of Martin Luther King Jr.'s papers had come across disturbing instances of plagiarism. Pappas got hold of King's doctoral thesis in theology and that of a certain Jack Boozer, who had preceded King as a graduate student at Boston University, laid them side by side and discovered that, indeed, King had cribbed whole sections. [http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-08-23/entertainment/9808220303_1_culture-war-plagiarism-case-chronicles ]

==Theology==
Rathbun (1968) shows the theological basis for King as a social reformer derived from four sources: the [[Social Gospel]] of [[Walter Rauschenbusch]], the Protestant Neo-Orthodoxy of [[Reinhold Niebuhr]] and Paul Tillich, Personalism taught at Boston University, and [[Mohandas Gandhi|Gandhi's]] concept of [[nonviolence|nonviolent]] love. King's synthesis of these four sources supported his civil rights activities. Laws may be broken, said King, if they are unjust laws which do not conform to eternal, ][[natural law]]. [[Jesus]], said King, was a true revolutionary who brought peace as a "presence of [[justice]]" instead of an "absence of tension." The church also must be revolutionary to counteract [[evil]] and bring about [[social justice]]. King's theology of social action foresaw complete, unprejudiced equality based on natural rights and privileges.<ref>John W. Rathbun, "Martin Luther King: The Theology of Social Action." ''American Quarterly'' 1968 20(1): 38-53. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2710989 in JSTOR]</ref>

==Civil rights==
[[File:Montgomery Story Comic 1956.jpg|thumb|250px|The Montgomery Story, Comic cover, 1956.]]
He became an advocate against [[racial discrimination]].

On Dec. 31, 1955, he led the nonviolent [[boycott]] of city buses of [[Montgomery]], [[Alabama]], after he sent [[Rosa Parks]] to be arrested for not moving to the back of the bus.<ref>http://www.thekingcenter.org/mlk/chronology.html</ref>

Rev. King wrote his most famous writing, “Letter From A Birmingham Jail” (1963), while imprisoned for demonstrating against segregated eating facilities.
[[Image:MartLK.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: "I Have a Dream" (1963)]]
{{cquote|'''''Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.'''''}}

King founded the [[Southern Christian Leadership Conference]].

Rev. King's most famous speech, delivered to a huge crowd gathered in [[Washington, D.C.]] in 1963, chanted the refrain "[[I Have a Dream]]" of an end to [[segregation]] and [[discrimination]]. It was a brilliant Christian sermon that drew upon verses and images in the [[Bible]],<ref>For example, the speech recited [[Book of Isaiah|Isaiah]] 40:4-5.</ref> ending in "Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"<ref>http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm</ref>
In 1964, Rev. King was awarded the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]. Rev. King was assassinated by [[James Earl Ray]] on April 4, 1968 in [[Memphis]], Tennessee.

On April 16, 1963, Rev. King wrote:

:"As the [[Apostle Paul]] carried the gospel of [[Jesus Christ]] ... so am I compelled to carry the gospel... I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and [[Jewish]] brothers ...

:I stand in the middle of two opposing forces ... One is a force of complacency ... The other force is one of bitterness and hatred, and it comes perilously close to advocating violence. It is expressed in the various black nationalist groups ... the largest being [[Elijah Muhammad]]'s [[Nation of Islam|Muslim]] movement.

:Nourished by frustration over racial discrimination, this movement is made up of people who have lost faith in America ...

:I have tried to stand between these two forces ... for there is the more excellent way of love ...

:One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters they were standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our [[Judeo-Christian]] heritage."

In his 1964 book, WHY WE CAN'T WAIT, Rev. King wrote:

:"Whenever this issue of compensatory or preferential treatment for the [[Negro]] is raised, some of our friends recoil in horror. The Negro should be granted equality, they agree, but he should ask for nothing more. On the surface, this appears reasonable, but it is not realistic. For it is obvious that if a man enters the starting line of a race three hundred years after another man, the first would have to perform some incredible feat in order to catch up."

His last major public speech became known as "I've Been to the Mountaintop" <ref>http://www.afscme.org/about/1549.cfm</ref>

King supported the existence of the Jewish State [[Israel]].<ref>http://www.zcommunications.org/fraud-fit-for-a-king-israel-zionism-and-the-misuse-of-mlk-by-tim-wise</ref>

== Nobel Peace Prize laureate ==
[[File:Martin Luther King Jr nobel peace prize.jpg|left|200px]]
On December 10, 1964, in Oslo, Norway, Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize. His acceptance speech started saying:

<blockquote>
I accept the Nobel Prize for Peace at a moment when twenty-two million Negroes of the United States of America are engaged in a creative battle to end the long night of racial injustice. I accept this award in behalf of a civil rights movement which is moving with determination and a majestic scorn for risk and danger to establish a reign of freedom and a rule of justice... I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him. [http://www.drmartinlutherkingjr.com/nobelpeaceprize.htm]
</blockquote>

{{Clear}}

==Foreign policy==
By 1966 his attacks on the [[Vietnam War]] led to a break with [[Lyndon Johnson]] and the [[labor union]]s that had been his base of support in the white community (along with the [[liberal]] churches).

=="I Have A Dream"==
Dr. King's monumental speech at a huge gathering in Washington, D.C., electrified the nation. Many people who had not previously considered equal rights for blacks to be an important issue were impressed with the many points he made in his speech about racial [[discrimination]]. His eloquent theme of "Let freedom ring" (reminiscent of [[Archibald Carey]]'s 1951 sermon)<ref>[http://www.snopes.com/history/american/mlking.asp Four Things About King] Snopes</ref> likewise motivated many Americans, particular white Judeo-Christians, to take up the cause of integration.

==Political affiliation==
Time and time again, liberals claim that MLK was a [[Democrat]]. Liberals point to the people he associated with or that he opposed [[Barry Goldwater]] as proof that MLK was a Democrat. There is considerable evidence that he was not a Democrat. Martin Luther King Sr. was a [[Republican]], that would almost certainly make his son a Republican. Only after his son was arrested did King Sr. plead to [[President Kennedy]] for his safe release. It is noted at that point MLK Sr. switched parties to support Kennedy. This despite Kennedy voting against the 1957 [[Civil Rights Act]] and being initially opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King. The March on Washington was organized by A. Phillip Randolph, who was a black Republican. In addition, [[Robert Kennedy]] allowed the [[FBI]] to wiretap MLK Jr's phone on a trial basis due to suspicion that Dr. King's associates were [[Communist]]; this was later expanded during Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency; which undermined King.<ref>[http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16500 Why Martin Luther King Was Republican, Human Events, August 16, 2006]</ref><ref>Herst, Burton (2007). ''Bobby and J. Edger''. pp. 372–74</ref>

It was the Republicans who led the way to free the slaves nearly one-hundred years earlier, that fact was not lost on his generation. Frances Rice, chairman of the National Black Republican Association said, [he] "absolutely was a Republican," and "We were all Republicans in those days. The Democrats were training fire hoses on us, siccing dogs on us."<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/18/AR2006101801754.html Controversial Ad Links MLK, GOP, Washington Post, October 19, 2006]</ref> In the 1960s, King would have witnessed the Democrat parties position on pro-[[segregation]], against the Civil Rights Act. King was most likely aware of high-profile Democrats such as [[Al Gore]] Sr. and [[Robert Byrd]] voting against repealing segregation. Southern Democrats rallied around [[Jim Crow]] laws and Black Codes which were targeted against King's message. [[Dixiecrat]]s blocked the social and political progress of black Southerners for decades. Was King unaware? Doubtful. It was Republican [[President Eisenhower]] who began the push for integrating all white schools and the desegregation of the military. To think King was a witness to all the upheaval Democrats caused and then became a champion of Democrats is a stretch.

MLK did, however, acknowledge how both parties have failed black Americans. The Democratic Party by "capitulating to the whims and caprices of the Southern Dixiecrats," and the Republican Party by "capitulating to the reactionary right-wing northern Republicans," showing that Dr. King believed that the reactionary right-wing policies that would come to characterize the Republican platform are a "betrayal" of African Americans. Furthermore, MLK, while never publicly endorsing any candidates, said that he had "always voted the Democratic ticket." He also claimed that he would have endorsed John F. Kennedy for re-election, had the latter not been assassinated. MLK also did not believe in guns, and would often espouse anti-capitalism ideals now associated with the Religious Left, based on the increasingly mainstream interpretation that Acts 4:32-5:11 advocated the pooling and redistribution of resources.

== Assassination ==
On April 3, 1968, King attended a rally in [[Memphis]], Tennessee to support of local black sanitation workers who were striking due to a wage imbalance with white colleagues. The following evening, he was standing on the balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel when a shot rang out. King was hit in the face and rushed to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. He was 39 years old.<ref>http://history1900s.about.com/cs/martinlutherking/a/mlkassass_2.htm</ref>

News of King's death spread quickly and sparked [[riot]]s in 100 U.S. cities. President [[Lyndon Johnson]] pleaded with Americans to refrain from violent demonstrations, saying "I ask every citizen to reject the blind violence that has taken Dr King." Presidential candidate [[Robert Kennedy]] was also vocal in pleading for peace.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/4/newsid_2453000/2453987.stm</ref>

King's assassin, a white ex-convict named [[James Earl Ray]], successfully eluded police for two months. He fled to [[Canada]], where he lived under the alias Ramon George Sneyd. He was arrested on June 8, 1968 and confessed to the crime, for which he received a sentence of 99 years in prison.<ref>http://www.fullissue.com/index.php/james-earl-ray-biography-1929-1998.html</ref>

Although King is generally embraced by the American cultural establishment today, he and the authorities did not always have such a cordial relationship. In 1967, King called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." The [[FBI]], under the direction of [[J. Edgar Hoover]], kept King under surveillance from 1961 until his death in 1968. The Bureau tapped his phones and bugged his hotel rooms. The FBI did not end its [[surveillance]] of King's wife, [[Coretta Scott King]], until many years after her husband's death.

Because of this, and despite Ray's confession to the murder, both [[Jesse Jackson]] and King's son Dexter Scott King have both said there was a government [[conspiracy]] to murder the civil rights leader. Jackson wrote the foreword to Ray's autobiography ''Who Killed Martin Luther King Jr.?'' and in it, he wrote "I have always believed that the government was part of a conspiracy, either directly or indirectly, to assassinate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr."<ref>http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/assassins/ray/1.html</ref>

== Memorial ==
On Oct. 16, 2011, a memorial to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — the first honoring an African-American in the area of the Mall — was dedicated in Washington. The memorial — a four-acre tract along the Tidal Basin that is dotted with elms and cherry trees and anchored by an imposing granite statue of Dr. King — is the product of more than two decades of work. It was conceived in 1983 by members of Dr. King’s fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, and authorized by Congress in 1996.

The monument to Dr. Martin Luther King is not only the first to a black man on the Mall and its adjoining parks, but also the first to honor a person who was not a president. His stone figure faces the [[Jefferson Memorial]] across the water. Lincoln is at his back, and Roosevelt to his right.
[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/us/memorial-of-martin-luther-king-jr-dedicated-in-washington.html?_r=1&hp]

The monument was built in China. The inaccurate MLK Jr. attributed inscription on the monument was removed in August 2013. In addition, MLK Jr's likeness, one of folded arms in resistance, does not accurately portray the man.

== Quotes ==
* "We know from painful experience that [[freedom]] is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. It must be demanded by the oppressed." <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=5wrCR_9VWowC&pg=PA346&dq=Freedom+is+never+voluntarily+given+by+the+oppressor%3B+it+must+be+demanded+by+the+oppressed&ei=_NxUSv-XJ6S4yQTg3ZGyBw God's new Israel: religious interpretations of American destiny‎ - Page 346] by Conrad Cherry</ref>

* "Judge people by the content of their character not the color of their skin."

* "[[Faith]] is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

* "I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

* "It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."

* "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

* "When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."

* "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

* "I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

* "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

* "Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured."

* "A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan."

== See also ==
* [[Gallery of American Heroes]]
* [[Martin Luther King, Jr. Day]]
* [[Malcolm X]]
* [[Essay:List of celebrities who support the Second Amendment]]
* [[Morris Taft Thomas]]

==Further reading==
* [http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/resources/article/king_online_encyclopedia1/ King Online Encyclopedia], 1000+ articles by scholars
* [http://www.questia.com/library/history/united-states-history/african-american-history/famous-african-americans/martin-luther-king-jr.jsp Online books and articles on King]
* [http://www.federalobserver.com/2012/01/15/plagiarism-and-the-cultural-war-the-writings-of-martin-luther-king-jr-and-other-prominent-americans/ Plagiarism and the Cultural War]
* [http://contra-mundum.org/cm/reviews/tw_plagiarism.pdf Review of The Martin Luther King. Jr., Plagiarism Story] - T.E. Wilder
* [https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/biography/item/28784-martin-luther-king-doesn-t-deserve-adulation Critical view of King, due to his alleges Communist leanings]

==References==
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