President Obama on the Martin Luther King Statue

Further to my observations on the Martin Luther Memorial -- that it is a "socialist/Stalinist-realism statue, composed by an art-worker who did busts of Mao ZeDong" -- below the comments of the President on the MLK sculpture:

For Immediate Release October 16, 2011
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT THE MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. MEMORIAL DEDICATION
The National Mall
Washington, D.C.

"This sculpture, massive and iconic as it is, will remind them [Obama's daughters] of Dr. King's strength, but to see him only as larger than life would do a disservice to what he taught us about ourselves. He would want them to know that he had setbacks, because they will have setbacks. He would want them to know that he had doubts, because they will have doubts. He would want them to know that he was flawed, because all of us have flaws.

It is precisely because Dr. King was a man of flesh and blood and not a figure of stone that he inspires us so."

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