“Be the peace you wish to see in the world”

A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.

Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.

Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.

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Entry from February 09, 2023

“Be the peace you wish to see in the world”

“Be the peace you wish to see in the world” is a saying that has been printed on many images.

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Gael Chiarella Alba
@Yokibics
Todays Course: Be the peace you wish to see.
1:18 AM · Jun 14, 2009

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Calliope
@onelovecandy
Be the Peace you wish to see in the world.
9:24 PM · Jul 15, 2009

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Maura Aura
@Maura_Aura
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!-Martin Luther King Jr.
2:47 AM · Jan 18, 2010

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Fluffy☮Hays☮Centner
@FluffySucks
“Be the PEACE you wish to see in the world” Martin Luther King Jr.
9:38 AM · Jan 18, 2010

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YesBiscuit
@YesBiscuit
“Be the peace you wish to see in the world!” #MLK
12:32 PM · Aug 28, 2010

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Posted by u/YZXFILE June 9, 2020
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World ...Martin Luther King. Jr.

The Hill
False quote from Martin Luther King Jr. appears on Ohio police car, researchers say
BY MARK FEUERBORN - 02/07/23 9:29 AM ET
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Columbus police misquoted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in decals on a new community outreach cruiser, according to researchers who study the civil rights icon.
(...)
Stanford professor and founder of the MLK Jr. Insitute, Clayborne Carson, explained further. He told VICE News it was “obviously impossible to disprove the claim that he once said those words,” but asserted the institute’s debunking with years of research.

“The King Papers Project that I directed for more than 3 decades didn’t find evidence that MLKJ ever said this,” Carson said.

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