MLK

In early honor of MLK Day, here is a brilliant insightful, famous quote that Martin Luther King prclaimed: "“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” 

If a young woman dared to leave the comfort, convenience, safety and company of her group-living buddies, setting out on her own to maverize and work to become an individuated living angel, her experience and journey, self-launched, would so heigten and deepen her awarness of life, its meaning, its fallout, its implication for her and for all that  her public writings and announcements would rattle nerves around the world. Her challenging rhetoric, her controversial stances, would indicate clearly that she had become a remarkable young woman, an inspirational leader of her people.

Measure what she would have been if she conformed, took no personal risks, never stood out, and never transgressed the rules and expectations of the group-livers of her youth: she would not be a trail blazer in times of challenge and controversy.