"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
