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January 20, 2008

Remembering King

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  "One day the absurdity of the almost

universal human belief

in the slavery of other animals

 will be palpable.

 We shall then have discovered our souls

 and become worthier of sharing this planet with them."

 

                    -- Martin Luther King Jr.

Posted by John Woestendiek at 9:35 AM | | Comments (3)
        

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I've never seen these words from Dr. King before, and I thank you for giving them to your readers.

What a great quote. I love quotes like this and have read many wonderful quotes on animal issues/rights but never found one by Martin Luther King Jr. before, though I had looked. Thanks for posting this!

Interesting, too, that dogs have already gotten the message about judging us by the content of our character. They don't care how much money we have, what color we are, or how much we paid for our house.

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About Jill Rosen
Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.
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