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Topic: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. & Bitcoin Embrace Freedom twitter.com/MLKsIHaveADream (Read 2693 times)

newbie
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legendary
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My favourite MLK, add this one if you please:

"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.


Possibly needs 5 separate tweets though
donator
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Let's talk governance, lipstick, and pigs.
I'll probably loose all my twitter followers, but I RT'd it.
vip
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vip
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Well, after some last minute corrections due to my errors during formatting (144 does not equal 140), https://twitter.com/MLKsIHaveADream is now complete with all 86 tweets in place, symbolic of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 86th birthday today (UTC/GMT), born January 15, 1929.

I've read the entire I Have a Dream speech once again in its new format, and I must admit it reads rather well. Hope you folks also take the time to give it a read, for even if it's not your first time, I'm sure you'll come away with a different perspective upon rereading it. I know I have, even after having read it dozens of times during the past few days.

Now, I'm goin' to tighten up the bio a tad, for I feel it's lacking. Then, I'm goin' do some tweeting of my own from one of the other Twitter accounts I have. Hopefully, by tomorrow the site will start gaining traction with the help of some [notable] periodicals.

Here's to a million new set of eyeballs subtly being introduced to Bitcoin for the very first time. For lack of a better term, I'll dub it the Million Eyeball March.

FYI, I'd have no problem with handing over the MLKsIHaveADream Twitter account to The Kind Center as a gift.



Thanks to the two Bitcoiners that have opted to follow thus far, neither account belonging to me.

Well, it's been a year and I'm taken aback upon viewing the many folks opting to follow this piece of art. Brings tears to my eyes.  Cry
hero member
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Oh, I see what you are doing.
Nice project I don`t tweet or else I would
follow you. Now if only The King Center would
take BTC that would be good.
donator
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Let's talk governance, lipstick, and pigs.
I hope you number the lines.
vip
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Well, after some last minute corrections due to my errors during formatting (144 does not equal 140), https://twitter.com/MLKsIHaveADream is now complete with all 86 tweets in place, symbolic of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 86th birthday today (UTC/GMT), born January 15, 1929.

I've read the entire I Have a Dream speech once again in its new format, and I must admit it reads rather well. Hope you folks also take the time to give it a read, for even if it's not your first time, I'm sure you'll come away with a different perspective upon rereading it. I know I have, even after having read it dozens of times during the past few days.

Now, I'm goin' to tighten up the bio a tad, for I feel it's lacking. Then, I'm goin' do some tweeting of my own from one of the other Twitter accounts I have. Hopefully, by tomorrow the site will start gaining traction with the help of some [notable] periodicals.

Here's to a million new set of eyeballs subtly being introduced to Bitcoin for the very first time. For lack of a better term, I'll dub it the Million Eyeball March.

FYI, I'd have no problem with handing over the MLKsIHaveADream Twitter account to The Kind Center as a gift.



Thanks to the two Bitcoiners that have opted to follow thus far, neither account belonging to me.
vip
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a nod is good as a wink to a blind bat

best of luck

Just hit a snag. Thanks to nobody correcting my error, I now need to configure a series of tweets over the 140 character mark. No idea where or how I ingrained the 144 character notion, with the exception of the Jehovah Witnesses showing up the the other day and I getting into a discussion with them about the only 144,000 going to heaven.

Darn! Looking forward, it looks I have a couple other traffic jams to content with.
donator
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Let's talk governance, lipstick, and pigs.
sr. member
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Lux e tenebris
a nod is good as a wink to a blind bat

best of luck
vip
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don't use changetip it's spammy

Thanks for the heads-up (and for the other  Wink). I couldn't configure it anyway. Currently, I have a personal wallet address in place as a placeholder. In essence, currently I'll be acting as the trusted escrow using 1HmfaMgLqKJMoxcoAdw13479qcFh4a1ajq.

Now, for a fresh cup of coffee prior to doing the blitzkrieg of tweets.
vip
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Considering everyone isn't posting in this thread except you, its safe to say nobody gives a shit.

Thanks for your opinion.  Tongue
sr. member
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Considering everyone isn't posting in this thread except you, its safe to say nobody gives a shit.
vip
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In less than 5 1/2 hours, the new Twitter account will start being populated with 86 tweets consisting of the entire I Have a Dream speech.

Meanwhile, I'm over 50% in completing the self-imposed 180 tweets (think 180o) that'll make up Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper tweeted in the same readable fashion on Twitter. FYI, the calculations are looking kinda tight, thus if I can't accomplish the task in 180 tweets, I'll jump it the next logical symbolic number [of tweets] - 256.
vip
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Meanwhile, I'm ~30% in completing the self-imposed 180 tweets (think 180o) that'll make up Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper tweeted in a readable fashion on Twitter.
vip
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86:  I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.  137  

85:  Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.  118  

84:  This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.  144  

83:  It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.
 129  

82:  One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.  135  

81:  One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.  123  

80:  One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.  133  

79:  And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.  63  

78:  In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the  133  

77:  Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was  141  

76:  a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of  142  

75:  Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead  139  

74:  of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."  140  

73:  But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.  62  

72:  We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.  105  

71:  And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.  127  

70:  We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now.  87  

69:  This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.  103  

68:  Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.  55  

67:  Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.  110  

66:  Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.  108  

65:  Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.  68  

64:  It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent  131  

63:  will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning.  129  

62:  And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation  123  

61:  returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.  138  

60:  The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.  118  

59:  But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of  142  

58:  gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup  143  

57:  of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative  138  

56:  protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.  142  

55:  The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people,  118  

54:  for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny.  143  

53:  And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.  86  

52:  We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.

We cannot turn back.
 118  

51:  There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?"  90  

50:  We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied  134  

49:  as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.  135  

48:  We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one.  102  

47:  We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating:  127  

46:  "For Whites Only."  18  

45:  We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.  135  

44:  No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."  138  

43:  I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And  144  

42:  some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds  144  

41:  of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.  141  

40:  Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana,  112  

39:  go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.  117  

38:  Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.  75  

37:  And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.  139  

36:  I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed:  96  

35:  "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."  74  

34:  I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia,  56  

33:  the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.  124  

32:  I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi,  58  

31:  a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.  144  

30:  I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation  73  

29:  where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.  95  

28:  I have a dream today!  21  

27:  I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists,  71  

26:  with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama  130  

25:  little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.  124  

24:  I have a dream today!  21  

23:  I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain,  142  

22:  and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."  128  

21:  This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.  73  

20:  With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to  123  

19:  transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together,  138  

18:  to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.  135  

17:  And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:  114  

16:  My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.  63  

15:  Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,

From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
 100  

14:  And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
 134  

13:  Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.  55  

12:  Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.  66  

11:  Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.  58  

10:  Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.  58  

9:  But not only that:  18  

8:  Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.  48  

7:  Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.  52  

6:  Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.  61  

5:  From every mountainside, let freedom ring.  42  

4:  And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet,  111  

3:  from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men,  122  

2:  Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:  122  

1:  Free at last! Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
 69  
vip
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You must be real retarded to compare this guy to Martin Luther King Jr. 

Not only didn't I compare Marc Andreessen to Dr. King, I didn't imply it. All my references are to how I reformatted Marc's 18 tweets on Twitter, doing the same thing for the I Have a Dream speech. That's the ONLY connection between Marc and Martin, unless we want to include that both their first names start with an "M".
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