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Today is Martin Luther King, Jr day. While most would probably want to take this opportunity to remember his accomplishments, reflect a bit on where civil rights are now, and introspect on their own lives, I'd like to say, screw that! I'm gonna cash in by starting a brand-new breakfast cereal, MLK-Os! The cereal of love, justice, and peace (and 2/3 of the RDA of riboflavin)!

Or, maybe I'll just say, accomplishments, sacrifices, all that humanity stuff aside, there's never been a guy who's been more eminently quotable:

• Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.
• Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
• I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
• 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.
• Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
• Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
• Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.