The View From Room 306

"Martin Luther King Jr. at least left behind a model of how to repair the social fabric. He was scholarly, formal, assertive and meticulously self-controlled in public. If Barack Obama's campaign represents anything, it is the triumph of King's early-'60s style of activism over the angry and reckless late-'60s style. King was in crisis when he was gunned down. But his inspiration is outlasting his critics." -- David Brooks