mabe you all didnt understand my 1st question
2007-08-25 10:23:05 · 10 answers · asked by limobill 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
He was a great man and very important.
2007-08-25 10:29:05 · answer #1 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He did good things, but I don't know if I'd say the 'greatest' in the last 50 years. Others to consider:
Ronald Reagan
Oprah Winfrey
Bill Gates
Neil Armstrong
Bill Cosby
John Glenn
Steve Jobs
Michael Jordan
Colin Powell
Frank Sinatra
Gordon B. Hinckley
Chuck Yeager
...just to name a few. I suppose it is all in how you define "greatest."
2007-08-25 17:40:31 · answer #2 · answered by The Corinthian 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Martin Luther King jr. was a plagiarist, womanizer, communist sympathizer and lawbreaker. He plagiarized his undergraduate thesis from Morehouse College and his doctoral dissertation from Boston University.
He never legally changed his name from Michael to Martin Luther, so Mike King jr.; spent time in Birmingham jail for breaking the law while his 'bosses' in the Southern Christian Conference Union sat back making big paychecks.
Mike King jr., was a willing dupe for the CPUSA (Communist Party of the USA).
Please read: The Venona Decrypts http://www.nsa.gov/venona/index.cfm
THE MARTIN LUTHER KING jr. PLAGIARISM STORY by Theodore Pappas
2007-08-25 18:31:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every person sees the world from their own personal point of view. So no one person is everyones' "greatest". The only self-proclaimed "greatest" was Muhammad Ali.
If you had added a couple of decades I would have said FDR.
2007-08-26 00:28:32 · answer #4 · answered by Huba 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO ONE is great enough to have a monument with a cost of $100 million!!! I hope that was privately funded. I know King would rather the money have gone to keep shelters going or scholarships funded or schools improved.
2007-08-25 17:32:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I might agree. I haven't considered it in terms of who might be "greatest," but he was certainly a great and important man in American history.
2007-08-26 00:44:02 · answer #6 · answered by adoptive mom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually I would rather nominate the ordinary American worker. Come to it, anyone's ordinary worker. Without those willing to do the day to day grind, I believe life would stop ! At least as we know it
2007-08-25 19:20:23 · answer #7 · answered by Frances M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats like saying the greatest athlete is (blank). It can't be calculated. Be he is one the greatest.
2007-08-25 18:18:44 · answer #8 · answered by Rickey R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure he is at the top of the list,but not the greatest.
2007-08-25 17:33:01 · answer #9 · answered by ibsohi4u 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He has plenty of competition
2007-08-25 19:06:20 · answer #10 · answered by rosie recipe 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋