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| Robin |
Posted - 01/15/2007 : 1:40:15 PM
I hope everyone who is so inclined, takes a moment today to listen to, or read something that Dr. King wrote. Peace,Robin |
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| Arthen |
Posted - 01/17/2007 : 4:57:43 PM
I listened to a speaker, who's last name was Lumumba which immediately took me back to Patrice Emery Lumumba the first prime minister of the Congo in the 1960's, who performed/recited the entire "I have a Dream" speech. It was absolutely stirring and powerful.
MLKjr. was such a phenomenal author/writer/philosopher/speaker. I remember reading his letter from a jail cell in Birmingham, I believe, and being stunned at the amount of knowledge and source material he commanded from memory. What a tragic loss. He would have been 78 this year, correct? |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 01/17/2007 : 11:32:48 AM
Everyone should check out an episode of The Boondocks called "Return of the King" which imagines MLK going into a coma after being shot and waking up in present day...quite an interesting take... |
| Robin |
Posted - 01/16/2007 : 9:16:40 PM
teri, you totally rock!! Thanks for taking the TIMe to share that with us.I was lucky enough to listen to many of his speeches as they were broadcast throughout that day. Thanks again, Peace, Robin |
| rubylith |
Posted - 01/16/2007 : 6:40:28 PM
Would O'Reilly tell King to "shut up"?
Check this out, bare with the O'Reilly segment, it goes into an incredible speech by Dr. King...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awFuel1Vds0&eurl= |
| tericee |
Posted - 01/16/2007 : 11:45:06 AM
I didn't do that, since I was driving back from a weekend trip, but I think it's never to late to do so! Here are a few of his wise words to ponder if you don't have time to look them up yourself: quote:
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. --Nobel lecture, Oslo, Norway, December 11, 1964
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I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of goodwill. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. We must come to see that human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and persistent work of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy, and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity. --letter to several clergymen from the Birmingham City Jail, Birmingham, Alabama, April 16, 1963
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The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.
--Strength to Love, p. 47 (1963).
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
--Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, pp. 62–63 (1967).
And finally, part of his most famous speech, to which Robin called our attention with the title of this thread:
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...Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."²
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:
My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of
Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that:
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
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