Of course, a great figure in American history in every sense. Yet, I'm very disappointed that his sainthood has forever altered the memory of his message. Hagiography has a way of doing that. Perhaps there's no way around that, but how many remember that the March on Washington was for Jobs just as much as for Freedom? I also don't think that history is well served when people are idolized. We are all thoroughly imperfect and it is difficult to make good decisions about the future when we imagine ourselves to be in the shadows of divinity. Nonetheless, it's difficult to find a more admirable historical figure.
once ruling ideology is subjected to a non-fatal defeat, it sanitizes the content of the insurgents and subsumes it into itself.
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