How the angrier part of the "I Have a Dream" speech is hardly ever mentioned.
When I read the beginning of it for the first time, I was surprised at how King was planning to organize people, that there was anger underlying that vision of peace. Combined with that and his later efforts to begin organizing the poor, I began to understand that he was more complex in his thinking than most people know.
If you're not careful, you could think of Frederick Douglas as somewhat quiet and complacent (at least, that's how he's often presented in the first years of school), but he wasn't. That Fourth of July speech is one of my favorites from him. Although he wasn't willing to go as far as some (e.g. he refused to join John Brown), Douglas still knew what was up.
"The entire world is being driven insane by this single phrase: "My religion alone is true." ...Who can make a system from Divine Mystery? But if any sincere practitioner, within whatever culture or religion, prays and meditates with great devotion & committment to Truth alone, Your Grace will flood his mind and heart..." ~~Ramakrishna
"Ignorance: The Verbal Airborne Disease" (c) my friend Ty
"cats pop champagne/over misery and pain/like slaves on the ship/talkin 'bout/who got the flyest chains" ~~Talib Kweli