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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. MLKPRM_150708_02.JPG: Martin Luther King, Jr. Promenade This park honors an American hero who stood for human dignity, non-violence and civil rights.
2. MLKPRM_150708_04.JPG: "History has thrust upon our generation an indescribably important destiny -- to complete a process of democratization which our nation has too long developed too slowly, but which is our most powerful weapon for world respect and emulation. How we deal with this crucial situation will determine our moral health as individuals, our cultural health as a region, our political health as a nation, and our prestige as a leader of the free world."
3. MLKPRM_150708_09.JPG: "Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can only be done by projecting the ethic of love to the center of our lives." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Title: "Breaking of the Chains" Artist: Melvin Edwards 1995 copyright Commissioned for Martin Luther King, Jr. Promenade through the Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Diego and Centre City Development Corporation.
4. MLKPRM_150708_15.JPG: "When I speak of love, I'm not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. It would be nonsense to urge men to love their oppressors in an affectionate sense. I'm not talking about that. When I speak of love, I am speaking of the kind of love that organizes itself into a mass movement that says somehow I am my brother's keeper, and he's so wrong that I am willing to fight --and die, if necessary -- to get him right again."
5. MLKPRM_150708_17.JPG: "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."
6. MLKPRM_150708_19.JPG: "Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it."
7. MLKPRM_150711_01.JPG: "The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate for for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice?"
8. MLKPRM_150711_05.JPG: "America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness--justice."
9. MLKPRM_150711_08.JPG: "When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love. Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice."
10. MLKPRM_150711_13.JPG: "In a real sense all life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are inevitably our brothers keeper because we are our brother's brother. Whatever affects one indirectly affects all directly."
11. MLKPRM_150711_16.JPG: "Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's non-violence or non-existence."
12. MLKPRM_150711_19.JPG: "... I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord."
13. MLKPRM_150711_25.JPG: "Compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the oppressors."
14. MLKPRM_150711_32.JPG: "As long as there is poverty in the world, nobody can be totally rich. ... As long as diseases are rampant... I can never be totally healthy... I can never be what you ought to be until you am what you ought to be."
15. MLKPRM_150711_37.JPG: "I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality."
16. MLKPRM_150711_42.JPG: "... and when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, 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, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
17. MLKPRM_150711_45.JPG: "Everybody can be great, (Everybody) because everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love."
18. MLKPRM_150711_48.JPG: "Every person must decide at some point, whether they will walk in light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgement: Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?"
19. MLKPRM_150711_50.JPG: "An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
20. MLKPRM_150711_53.JPG: "Something should remind us once more that the great things in this universe are things that we never see. You walk out at night and look up at the beautiful stars as they bedeck the heavens like swinging lanterns of eternity and you think you can see all. Oh, no. You can never see the law of gravitation that holds them there."
21. MLKPRM_150711_56.JPG: "We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time."
22. MLKPRM_150711_61.JPG: "Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty."
23. MLKPRM_150711_66.JPG: What is Freedom? It is, first, the capacity to deliberate or weigh alternatives. ... Second, freedom expresses itself in decision. ... A third expression of freedom is responsibility. The immorality of segregation is that it is a selfishly contrived system which cuts off ones capacity to deliberate, decide, and respond."
24. MLKPRM_150711_68.JPG: "We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time."
25. MLKPRM_150711_86.JPG: "I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality."
26. MLKPRM_150711_89.JPG: "As long as there is poverty in the world, nobody can be totally rich. ... As long as diseases are rampant... I can never be totally healthy... I can never be what you ought to be until you am what you ought to be."
27. MLKPRM_150711_93.JPG: "The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate for for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice?"
Description of Subject Matter: Martin Luther King Jr. Promenade is a linear park that stretches from Market Street to PETCO Park and connects Children's Museum Park, Children's Park, and Gaslamp Square. The tree-lined promenade features a hedge maze at beginning of the promenade on Market Street, leading to an abstract sculpture in the center, entitled Shedding the Cloak, by Jerry Dumalo, Mary Lynn Dominguez, and Tama Dumalo, as well as a fountain and water feature. Another sculpture, Dreams, is planned for the maze. The Promenade also includes other public art that pays tribute to Dr. King's memory and his dream, including a Dream, by Roberto Salas, which depicts five hands comprised of bronze and steel, plaques with Dr. King's words embedded in the ground, and the Breaking the Chains sculpture, by Melvin Edwards. The promenade is a favorite for pedestrians, joggers, and bicyclists, and is the site of annual multi-cultural festival held on Martin Luther King Day, which features, music, food, exhibits, vendors, and entertainment.
The above is from http://www.civicsd.com/programs/parks-and-open-space/parks/915-martin-luther-king-jr-promenade.html
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