Vowel Movement

"So this morning, as I look into your eyes and into the eyes of all of my brothers in Alabama and all over America and over the world, I say to you: 'I love you. I would rather die than hate you.'" -- Martin Luther King Jr., Nov. 17, 1957, in Montgomery’s Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

Author/humorist Sarah Vowell's op-ed about the late Martin Luther King Jr., whose birthday we recognize today, will touch even the most cynical of the cynics.

"I look forward to Martin Luther King’s Birthday -- when the news momentarily replaces the rants of the faith-based spitfires with clips of what an actually Christlike Christian sounds like -- with the kind of fondness with which my pal Ben looks back on the decent, affectionate ideal that was his summer camp."