"Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent." Some of the greatest words I ever heard.
Every time I hear this knowing what’s going to transpire 24 hrs later is haunting….it’s like he knew , and he was ready…. 39 years old …imagine how much he could have accomplished in the second half of his life…. Thank you Brother King …
He was only getting started. He had hit critical mass. He became bigger than the whole infrastructure that ran the nation in that moment. In this speech. In their eyes they had no option than to kill him. What he accomplished from 1st assassination attempt. Man. He was ready to go so he went for the jagular. And so it was.
Truth, and he predicted his own death, which is something that, if a white person had done it, would be known to every American. As a white American, I would be so honored if a a man as brilliant and brave as King, Jr. would call me a "friend," and although it is unpopular today, I honor his words, and try to live by his example. Nowadays, people will judge me for being a white man who lectures non-white people on the teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr., but if he could be here today, I am confident he would stand beside me, because he and I agree that the color of our skin doesn't mean shit. It is only the content of our characters that matters. Nothing else. Only one thing.
Probably one the most courageous men who ever lived, in the face of so much hate and violence and daily death threats, his focus and justly cause never wavered. We as Americans should feel proud to have this great man as our brother of all races, a protector of the downtrodden, a man of principal for non violence, and a tremendous civil rights warrior. As I listen to this speech, I am moved beyond words can describe. Truly, Doctor Martin Luther King Jr will go down in the annuals of history as one of the greatest human beings who have ever graced this earth for untold generations to come. Long live your memory Doctor King, for you will forever be the champion of the great masses of people of this World. God bless you.
He was a real man use by God to do His Will.He never worry but he love every race and justic for all human.He never worry about his family but he was concern about your family and others family He never put nothing before God will.That why he was able to go to mountain top and saw the promises God now let each of us live those promises right now!!!👨👩👧👧😇💜☝️.
@@negro722 Stop calling people names. She's referring to Dr. King. It's not kind for you to speak to Susie that way. Jesus Christ would be disappointed. Show love, not confrontation.
@@kevinhwilson7663 - I hardly think Jesus would disagree with me pointing out someone blaspheming His name - and I could care less what you think, so....
@@negro722 EXACTLY. That's the point. Jesus calls for us to be FISHERS OF MEN. We are SUPPOSED TO CARE., but you DO NOT. And that has been made abundantly clear. But that's your personal walk and you will have to answer to God for your behavior just like everyone else. I just need others who come to this post to know that not all followers of Christ think and behave like you..... By the way, you need to search the scriptures and research what blasphemy actually is... cuz this aint it and your rebuke is incorrectly placed.
My family's house in Memphis at that time lay not 5 miles from where this speech was given. I grew up hearing hate and revulsion for this man. My tears are flowing right alongside yours.
Great speech. I actually think this is way better than the "I Have a Dream " speech. His emotion and letting everyone know in so many words, he knew he was gonna die, but he wasn't afraid. The ending always gets me in my heart.
I feel absolutely terrible. I feel absolutely embarrassed that this man is dead and we are way way behind where he even started. We are in the fucking nightmare we are, and we have no clue how bad we are right now really sad to hear the speech for him to have a dream him to go to the mountaintop and for us to seek it all sink sink it all sink it all. I know it changed when they stop showing the new generation after me the water hose is the dog still marches in school. I saw that all the way up until my senior year pretty much which was like 1991 well more like up to my eighth grade year, but I noticed the new generation never saw that stuff. They didn’t know what their forefathers even fought for let alone the generation before them, and before me, decide to say, those knuckleheads can raise themselves. That’s one of the main reasons the younger kids win against the grain and decided to raised him selves and take nobody else’s advice or anything like that it’s really really really really sad right now the predicament, Blacks have themselves in. and I’m not gonna lie they had it planned out for us and we beat the beat not only did we bite the beat we ate the fucking line now we can’t get over throats so just imagine that that’s what we are Black people dare you continue on with this nonsense, killings condoning ghetto ism, saying songs that are demonic are talent, demonic people saying they’re talented and heroes they’re not heroes, watching TV shows like BMF and glamorizing that lifestyle that lifestyle tore a lot of families up drugs, annihilated black neighborhoods, and we put those same people that ran those organizations on pedestals the black ones let alone the white ones we don’t even know about all, we know, we just ignore again all those shows the print the depict Black people As just drug dealing drama field nightmare type culture that’s not OK so I wish we would make a decision and decide to change as one. The predicament we are now in full Connor was alive. A dumb ass would be probably going through the same thing that they went through in the 60s that how dumb we become. Black folks this speech was over 50 years ago and look at the fuck who you are now absolutely embarrassing you have no idea what this man did just for you to even walk around instead do you wanna walk around calling women derogative names or women wanna walk around and have sex with everybody like it’s the thing to do when one ignore their kids now because They’re so busy on social media getting likes, the same likes that he allegedly tried to get from the meets their meats and treating them like absolute shit because there’s no satisfaction is just a no chaser blacks look at where we are now how dare us stay in here and even attempt to have dignity
He said a few years in the second half of the 20th century…… he knew he wasn’t going to experience any of it …. Couldn’t imagine being 39 years old with 4 kids and a wife, Knowing for a fact your days were numbered…. Every night of an assassination prior to his (Kennedy , Malcolm , Evers ,) we can’t even fathom how he felt before he laid to sleep those nights
He's a genius who is recognized in form, but not in function. People say they love MLK, Jr., but few of them understand his genius, and fewer understand his moral philosophy.
No. But this white boy is a determined opponent of the vicious antisocial BlackLives and the great enemy Political Islam. =============== Jeremy Reagan 2 hours ago This holy man changed my life in 1998 in Austin Texas at Barns& Noble’s books and I read his 1963 Strength to Love its golden prose of a love for all humankind’s poor and broken lost ones gave me a standard of ethics which forces me to NOT be adjusted to injustice and how us whites whom have enjoyed the labor of others must repent and seek redemption for our collective sin against God and man. WCANGEL: The book "Strength To Love" is important and valuable. It is also quite incomplete. Basically it is important to read Letter From A Birmingham Jail and other public letters from Dr. King to understand his thought and intention. I have studied Freedom Summer and the lives and political work of Dr. King and Malcolm X. We lost both these men, one Christian and one Muslim, and these were severe losses for all Americans and the progress of social discourse. As a white boy I carry NO "collective sin against God and man". We Buddhist teachers deal with karma, not a creator god. I fight injustice. Specifically I fought the traitorous corrupt Democrats and Political Islam all of 2016 on behalf of human rights. It's a small group of activists but we get the job done. I fight for key human rights, meaning free thought, free speech, and free assembly, and against violence against civilians, on several continents. This fight has nothing to do with race. It is about politics and culture. Now the American body politic is severely divided in terms of public discourse and fundamentally divergent perspectives, and 2017 will bring much more political strife. That is an important issue, and it is a struggle between those who support basic humanitarian principles and the open society, and those who actively oppose these principles and who oppose the free societies in the name of anti-social identity politics. The anti-social identity politics includes BlackLivesMatter, and I have studied them in depth. There is no middle ground, and I have made a determined choice to fight for the free open and egalitarian society. That society requires a baseline of fairness, respect and co-operation which is often not found in the views of many major political types today. The basis for that free open and egalitarian society is simply free speech, due process and equality under the law. Those are worth fighting for, and I fight the good fight.
I am both ashamed and grateful that - at 56 - I’m discovering this speech for the first time. It is a masterpiece of faith and inspiration. He truly was and is one of God’s Great Examples. I have no doubt he was greeted above with joy and love, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he reacted with humility and asked, “Did i do enough? What can i do from here?” What a Great Man. Dr. King lived up to his family name. Love him.
I believe God told him that he would die soon. And this speech is him, it's hard to explain, but I think it's Dr King kind of reconciling his own death, and preparing himself and his people for the inevitable. It's almost like he's preaching the fear out of his own body. This is one, giant, incredible prayer by a man who has been revealed the other side. I'm not sure if that makes sense, but it's how I interpret it. It's a soldiers prayer before certain death.
man is not separate from God, it is time to wake up dear children of light. you are all expressions of the divine, no less than the God you have been taught to stand under
I listen to this a lot..I may wake up in the morning not feeling good about life..I listen to this man and I watch the pure sincerity and determination on his face..it inspires me.this was a truly great man....everyone that isn't pure moved by his words is crazy..this is what a hero..and a leader looks like.. young folks this is someone to look up to and show respect.
I remember in the summer of last year in 2015 I went to a museum and I listened to this speech. Now I didn't know who was speaking at first and I didn't know the name or anything. But I stayed and listened and it made me cry. People say young kids don't have any appreciation but I'm young in the 6th grade actually and I appreciate this man everyday when I look around and when I'm with my friends together not separate he had and still makes a big impact on us till this day and I thank him for that. Thank you.
He knew they were going to kill him, but he also knew our future at the time of this speech. ❤ and here we are, yes we still going, but here we are and we WILL get to a world of love, peace, and equality and empathy. ❤️
that comment was directed to an atheist who was bad mouthing the Holy Spirit and it seems he has chosen to delete his comment - sorry for the mixup. I'm deleting my comment to eliminate any further confusion. Thanks.
If you can provide a complete instruction manual of how He can work through us, that's be awesome. As for reality, the Shes seem to have as much wisdom as the Hes, although the Hes are more likely to take credit.
Unbelievable discernment and truth. No wonder the enemy wanted to take him out. He was opening peoples eyes. Why is this speech not played in school across America. I never heard of this speech in school….
What a time, what a movement that swept the earth Dr. King was sent by God as that of a Moses to go before Pharaohs to let his people go. Rest In Him DR. KING
Emmanuel Jones I was raised to believe that all men and women are created equal by this man's words and character. He spoke to us all as people first by making it clear that we can forgive, and as a white man I truly appreciate that ability, and also appreciate the gift of a United States of People that I was raised in. Secondly we can move forward together without the fear of reprisal from our government. He made it obvious that disregard comes at our own peril and to the peril of those not given the chance to exist due to our blindness. It brings me to tears everytime I hear hear his voice. His words could not be overlooked once they left his lips and are still amongst the breaths we breathe today, and with this breath i was given, I say to him, thank you.
“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord..” There were a few powerful statements but for this to be his last words of his last sermon. “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.” Whew.
Mr. King's purpose was above government, it was above money and above the most "powerful" people in the world, because I am confident when i say that God Himself reached out to King. And King opened his heart to the true King and assumed his purpose handed down to him by the most high, without fear, or stutter in his step. I love Mlk for that courage.
Dr. King was like Jesus, he turned the other cheek when appropriate and protested for equal rights without using violence in the 1960's. Dr. King impressed me to no end. I still idolize him for his ability to lead and create the force of change through brilliant speeches and adopting a divine attitude.
Troy, I can see you wrote this seven years ago but I have to validate that you are so right. I look back at childhood and the shock that I felt the day Dr King was shot and I wondered what the world would become. I am sixty three in a few days and I truly believe Satan is out of the pit. The word tells us there will be wars and rumors of wars but the cruelty and hate in the world today really frightens me.
Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about. It's always good to have your closest friend and associate to say something good about you. And Ralph Abernathy is the best friend that I have in the world. I'm delighted to see each of you here tonight in spite of a storm warning. You reveal that you are determined to go on anyhow. Something is happening in Memphis; something is happening in our world. And you know, if I were standing at the beginning of time, with the possibility of taking a kind of general and panoramic view of the whole of human history up to now, and the Almighty said to me, "Martin Luther King, which age would you like to live in?" I would take my mental flight by Egypt and I would watch God's children in their magnificent trek from the dark dungeons of Egypt through, or rather across the Red Sea, through the wilderness on toward the promised land. And in spite of its magnificence, I wouldn't stop there. I would move on by Greece and take my mind to Mount Olympus. And I would see Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Euripides and Aristophanes assembled around the Parthenon. And I would watch them around the Parthenon as they discussed the great and eternal issues of reality. But I wouldn't stop there. I would go on, even to the great heyday of the Roman Empire. And I would see developments around there, through various emperors and leaders. But I wouldn't stop there. I would even come up to the day of the Renaissance, and get a quick picture of all that the Renaissance did for the cultural and aesthetic life of man. But I wouldn't stop there. I would even go by the way that the man for whom I am named had his habitat. And I would watch Martin Luther as he tacked his ninety-five theses on the door at the church of Wittenberg. But I wouldn't stop there. I would come on up even to 1863, and watch a vacillating President by the name of Abraham Lincoln finally come to the conclusion that he had to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. But I wouldn't stop there. I would even come up to the early thirties, and see a man grappling with the problems of the bankruptcy of his nation. And come with an eloquent cry that we have nothing to fear but "fear itself." But I wouldn't stop there. Strangely enough, I would turn to the Almighty, and say, "If you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the 20th century, I will be happy." Now that's a strange statement to make, because the world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around. That's a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century in a way that men, in some strange way, are responding. Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee -- the cry is always the same: "We want to be free." And another reason that I'm happy to live in this period is that we have been forced to a point where we are going to have to grapple with the problems that men have been trying to grapple with through history, but the demands didn't force them to do it. Survival demands that we grapple with them. Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today. And also in the human rights revolution, if something isn't done, and done in a hurry, to bring the colored peoples of the world out of their long years of poverty, their long years of hurt and neglect, the whole world is doomed. Now, I'm just happy that God has allowed me to live in this period to see what is unfolding. And I'm happy that He's allowed me to be in Memphis. I can remember -- I can remember when Negroes were just going around as Ralph has said, so often, scratching where they didn't itch, and laughing when they were not tickled. But that day is all over. We mean business now, and we are determined to gain our rightful place in God's world. And that's all this whole thing is about. We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying -- We are saying that we are God's children. And that we are God's children, we don't have to live like we are forced to live. Now, what does all of this mean in this great period of history? It means that we've got to stay together. We've got to stay together and maintain unity. You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite, favorite formula for doing it. What was that? He kept the slaves fighting among themselves. But whenever the slaves get together, something happens in Pharaoh's court, and he cannot hold the slaves in slavery. When the slaves get together, that's the beginning of getting out of slavery. Now let us maintain unity. Secondly, let us keep the issues where they are. The issue is injustice. The issue is the refusal of Memphis to be fair and honest in its dealings with its public servants, who happen to be sanitation workers. Now, we've got to keep attention on that. That's always the problem with a little violence. You know what happened the other day, and the press dealt only with the window-breaking. I read the articles. They very seldom got around to mentioning the fact that one thousand, three hundred sanitation workers are on strike, and that Memphis is not being fair to them, and that Mayor Loeb is in dire need of a doctor. They didn't get around to that. Now we're going to march again, and we've got to march again, in order to put the issue where it is supposed to be -- and force everybody to see that there are thirteen hundred of God's children here suffering, sometimes going hungry, going through dark and dreary nights wondering how this thing is going to come out. That's the issue. And we've got to say to the nation: We know how it's coming out. For when people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory. We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do. I've seen them so often. I remember in Birmingham, Alabama, when we were in that majestic struggle there, we would move out of the 16th Street Baptist Church day after day; by the hundreds we would move out. And Bull Connor would tell them to send the dogs forth, and they did come; but we just went before the dogs singing, "Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around." Bull Connor next would say, "Turn the fire hoses on." And as I said to you the other night, Bull Connor didn't know history. He knew a kind of physics that somehow didn't relate to the transphysics that we knew about. And that was the fact that there was a certain kind of fire that no water could put out. And we went before the fire hoses; we had known water. If we were Baptist or some other denominations, we had been immersed. If we were Methodist, and some others, we had been sprinkled, but we knew water. That couldn't stop us. And we just went on before the dogs and we would look at them; and we'd go on before the water hoses and we would look at it, and we'd just go on singing "Over my head I see freedom in the air." And then we would be thrown in the paddy wagons, and sometimes we were stacked in there like sardines in a can. And they would throw us in, and old Bull would say, "Take 'em off," and they did; and we would just go in the paddy wagon singing, "We Shall Overcome." And every now and then we'd get in jail, and we'd see the jailers looking through the windows being moved by our prayers, and being moved by our words and our songs. And there was a power there which Bull Connor couldn't adjust to; and so we ended up transforming Bull into a steer, and we won our struggle in Birmingham. Now we've got to go on in Memphis just like that. I call upon you to be with us when we go out Monday. Now about injunctions: We have an injunction and we're going into court tomorrow morning to fight this illegal, unconstitutional injunction. All we say to America is, "Be true to what you said on paper." If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. Maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they hadn't committed themselves to that over there. But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right. And so just as I say, we aren't going to let dogs or water hoses turn us around, we aren't going to let any injunction turn us around. We are going on. We need all of you. And you know what's beautiful to me is to see all of these ministers of the Gospel. It's a marvelous picture. Who is it that is supposed to articulate the longings and aspirations of the people more than the preacher? Somehow the preacher must have a kind of fire shut up in his bones. And whenever injustice is around he tell it. Somehow the preacher must be an Amos, and saith, "When God speaks who can but prophesy?" Again with Amos, "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream." Somehow the preacher must say with Jesus, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me," and he's anointed me to deal with the problems of the poor." And I want to commend the preachers, under the leadership of these noble men: James Lawson, one who has been in this struggle for many years; he's been to jail for struggling; he's been kicked out of Vanderbilt University for this struggle, but he's still going on, fighting for the rights of his people. Reverend Ralph Jackson, Billy Kiles; I could just go right on down the list, but time will not permit. But I want to thank all of them. And I want you to thank them, because so often, preachers aren't concerned about anything but themselves. And I'm always happy to see a relevant ministry. It's all right to talk about "long white robes over yonder," in all of its symbolism. But ultimately people want some suits and dresses and shoes to wear down here! It's all right to talk about "streets flowing with milk and honey," but God has commanded us to be concerned about the slums down here, and his children who can't eat three square meals a day. It's all right to talk about the new Jerusalem, but one day, God's preacher must talk about the new New York, the new Atlanta, the new Philadelphia, the new Los Angeles, the new Memphis, Tennessee. This is what we have to do. Now the other thing we'll have to do is this: Always anchor our external direct action with the power of economic withdrawal. Now, we are poor people. Individually, we are poor when you compare us with white society in America. We are poor. Never stop and forget that collectively -- that means all of us together -- collectively we are richer than all the nations in the world, with the exception of nine. Did you ever think about that? After you leave the United States, Soviet Russia, Great Britain, West Germany, France, and I could name the others, the American Negro collectively is richer than most nations of the world. We have an annual income of more than thirty billion dollars a year, which is more than all of the exports of the United States, and more than the national budget of Canada. Did you know that? That's power right there, if we know how to pool it. We don't have to argue with anybody. We don't have to curse and go around acting bad with our words. We don't need any bricks and bottles. We don't need any Molotov cocktails. We just need to go around to these stores, and to these massive industries in our country, and say, "God sent us by here, to say to you that you're not treating his children right. And we've come by here to ask you to make the first item on your agenda fair treatment, where God's children are concerned. Now, if you are not prepared to do that, we do have an agenda that we must follow. And our agenda calls for withdrawing economic support from you." And so, as a result of this, we are asking you tonight, to go out and tell your neighbors not to buy Coca-Cola in Memphis. Go by and tell them not to buy Sealtest milk. Tell them not to buy -- what is the other bread? -- Wonder Bread. And what is the other bread company, Jesse? Tell them not to buy Hart's bread. As Jesse Jackson has said, up to now, only the garbage men have been feeling pain; now we must kind of redistribute the pain. We are choosing these companies because they haven't been fair in their hiring policies; and we are choosing them because they can begin the process of saying they are going to support the needs and the rights of these men who are on strike. And then they can move on town -- downtown and tell Mayor Loeb to do what is right. But not only that, we've got to strengthen black institutions. I call upon you to take your money out of the banks downtown and deposit your money in Tri-State Bank. We want a "bank-in" movement in Memphis. Go by the savings and loan association. I'm not asking you something that we don't do ourselves at SCLC. Judge Hooks and others will tell you that we have an account here in the savings and loan association from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. We are telling you to follow what we are doing. Put your money there. You have six or seven black insurance companies here in the city of Memphis. Take out your insurance there. We want to have an "insurance-in." Now these are some practical things that we can do. We begin the process of building a greater economic base. And at the same time, we are putting pressure where it really hurts. I ask you to follow through here. Now, let me say as I move to my conclusion that we've got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end. Nothing would be more tragic than to stop at this point in Memphis. We've got to see it through. And when we have our march, you need to be there. If it means leaving work, if it means leaving school -- be there. Be concerned about your brother. You may not be on strike. But either we go up together, or we go down together. Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness. One day a man came to Jesus, and he wanted to raise some questions about some vital matters of life. At points he wanted to trick Jesus, and show him that he knew a little more than Jesus knew and throw him off base.... Now that question could have easily ended up in a philosophical and theological debate. But Jesus immediately pulled that question from mid-air, and placed it on a dangerous curve between Jerusalem and Jericho. And he talked about a certain man, who fell among thieves. You remember that a Levite and a priest passed by on the other side. They didn't stop to help him. And finally a man of another race came by. He got down from his beast, decided not to be compassionate by proxy. But he got down with him, administered first aid, and helped the man in need. Jesus ended up saying, this was the good man, this was the great man, because he had the capacity to project the "I" into the "thou," and to be concerned about his brother. Now you know, we use our imagination a great deal to try to determine why the priest and the Levite didn't stop. At times we say they were busy going to a church meeting, an ecclesiastical gathering, and they had to get on down to Jerusalem so they wouldn't be late for their meeting. At other times we would speculate that there was a religious law that "One who was engaged in religious ceremonials was not to touch a human body twenty-four hours before the ceremony." And every now and then we begin to wonder whether maybe they were not going down to Jerusalem -- or down to Jericho, rather to organize a "Jericho Road Improvement Association." That's a possibility. Maybe they felt that it was better to deal with the problem from the causal root, rather than to get bogged down with an individual effect. But I'm going to tell you what my imagination tells me. It's possible that those men were afraid. You see, the Jericho road is a dangerous road. I remember when Mrs. King and I were first in Jerusalem. We rented a car and drove from Jerusalem down to Jericho. And as soon as we got on that road, I said to my wife, "I can see why Jesus used this as the setting for his parable." It's a winding, meandering road. It's really conducive for ambushing. You start out in Jerusalem, which is about 1200 miles -- or rather 1200 feet above sea level. And by the time you get down to Jericho, fifteen or twenty minutes later, you're about 2200 feet below sea level. That's a dangerous road. In the days of Jesus it came to be known as the "Bloody Pass." And you know, it's possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the robbers were still around. Or it's possible that they felt that the man on the ground was merely faking. And he was acting like he had been robbed and hurt, in order to seize them over there, lure them there for quick and easy seizure. And so the first question that the priest asked -- the first question that the Levite asked was, "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But then the Good Samaritan came by. And he reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?" That's the question before you tonight. Not, "If I stop to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to my job. Not, "If I stop to help the sanitation workers what will happen to all of the hours that I usually spend in my office every day and every week as a pastor?" The question is not, "If I stop to help this man in need, what will happen to me?" The question is, "If I do not stop to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to them?" That's the question. Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation. And I want to thank God, once more, for allowing me to be here with you. You know, several years ago, I was in New York City autographing the first book that I had written. And while sitting there autographing books, a demented black woman came up. The only question I heard from her was, "Are you Martin Luther King?" And I was looking down writing, and I said, "Yes." And the next minute I felt something beating on my chest. Before I knew it I had been stabbed by this demented woman. I was rushed to Harlem Hospital. It was a dark Saturday afternoon. And that blade had gone through, and the X-rays revealed that the tip of the blade was on the edge of my aorta, the main artery. And once that's punctured, your drowned in your own blood -- that's the end of you. It came out in the New York Times the next morning, that if I had merely sneezed, I would have died. Well, about four days later, they allowed me, after the operation, after my chest had been opened, and the blade had been taken out, to move around in the wheel chair in the hospital. They allowed me to read some of the mail that came in, and from all over the states and the world, kind letters came in. I read a few, but one of them I will never forget. I had received one from the President and the Vice-President. I've forgotten what those telegrams said. I'd received a visit and a letter from the Governor of New York, but I've forgotten what that letter said. But there was another letter that came from a little girl, a young girl who was a student at the White Plains High School. And I looked at that letter, and I'll never forget it. It said simply, Dear Dr. King, I am a ninth-grade student at the White Plains High School." And she said, While it should not matter, I would like to mention that I'm a white girl. I read in the paper of your misfortune, and of your suffering. And I read that if you had sneezed, you would have died. And I'm simply writing you to say that I'm so happy that you didn't sneeze. And I want to say tonight -- I want to say tonight that I too am happy that I didn't sneeze. Because if I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here in 1960, when students all over the South started sitting-in at lunch counters. And I knew that as they were sitting in, they were really standing up for the best in the American dream, and taking the whole nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here in 1961, when we decided to take a ride for freedom and ended segregation in inter-state travel. If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here in 1962, when Negroes in Albany, Georgia, decided to straighten their backs up. And whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent. If I had sneezed -- If I had sneezed I wouldn't have been here in 1963, when the black people of Birmingham, Alabama, aroused the conscience of this nation, and brought into being the Civil Rights Bill. If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have had a chance later that year, in August, to try to tell America about a dream that I had had. If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been down in Selma, Alabama, to see the great Movement there. If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been in Memphis to see a community rally around those brothers and sisters who are suffering. I'm so happy that I didn't sneeze. And they were telling me --. Now, it doesn't matter, now. It really doesn't matter what happens now. I left Atlanta this morning, and as we got started on the plane, there were six of us. The pilot said over the public address system, "We are sorry for the delay, but we have Dr. Martin Luther King on the plane. And to be sure that all of the bags were checked, and to be sure that nothing would be wrong with on the plane, we had to check out everything carefully. And we've had the plane protected and guarded all night." And then I got into Memphis. And some began to say the threats, or talk about the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers? Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land! And so I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man! Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!!
It's nice to be able to read along while Dr. King speaks. #IAmANativeMemphian Thanks, Dr. King for the ultimate sacrifice your life, legacy, and longevity!!! Yes, Memphis is still Memphis! #MLK50
Wow,Wow,Wow thanks alot im up cant sleep so i don't know how i found this but thanks so very much & i mean it i look @ another speech it was nice its something to cherish & pass it along to my grandkids huh,wow that blueprint it sounds like my words i have to hear it again its like tuned in like my 8day sermons, like i said it's familiar ive heard myself say & MAY GOD THAT 🔥 THAT NO WATER CAN PUT OUT BLESS U & YOUR'S FOREVER & FOREVER,AMEN'& AMEN'........?
Tears in my eyes as I listen to this wise man, he will never die, as long as the spirit of freedom is in the air, as long as change is needed, he is there.
The speech that Americans need to hear over and over again. The blueprint for human rights he reveals here would empower the weak and the poor if they followed his message and his outlined plan of action. Freedom fighters must continue to share this message, this powerful speech in order to enlighten the wanderers who stumble in darkness.
I watched this the other night and Cried.. Not because I was sad..but because I was touched by the speech and of course by God.. It's sooo powerful..this great speech from Martin Luther king..and it comes from God through him.. You can say it's a an amazing speech or a inspirational speech or even a emotional speech...but I like to just say it's God speaking to all of us....no matter what race or religion, through in my opinion 1 of the greatest men that has ever lived...MLK.. And the most mind blowing part for me is and I mean mind blowing....is when he says at the end of the speech..... "I'm not worried about anything, I'm not fearing any man...as my eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord"... I have no words.. The day after this speech he was assassinated and I believe he knew it was coming..but he had no fear..as he knew were he was going... Wow..!!.. A great man of God..
Today, (1-23-2019) I am much saddened that we have no Martin Luther King. It's a heartbreaking thing - we have no one even close to being like our beloved Martin Luther King.
Trump has been elected. I turned to this speech for guidance. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around. That's a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation. And so I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man!
And why should America "have to create the wheel' again and again? Or any other nation for that matter? We humans have learned one thing from history...NOTHING! We have technology, so what do we do, use in to hurt one another. Now that's progress. Of course I say that sarcastically. Our only recourse is have faith in God's eternal kingdom which has been promised to us by faith in Jesus Christ..."for all other ground is sinking sand." King said "I've been to the mountain top" but failed to mention how to get there. It's by faith in the Son of God who was victorious over death, hell and the grave (1st Corinthians 15:3,4) Jesus provides both forgiveness of sins and he hope of eternal life. God has provided both the message of salvation by faith in Jesus Christ, as well as the march against oppression when it manifests in societies. But the former must not be removed by the latter and rendered helpless. The need for the call to salvation and discipleship in Christ must not be regulated by our NEW call for civil rights pertaining to one's private behavior. Wasn't King a Christian Minister?
Emmett Till I pray that you have seen the mountaintop little brother. Rejoicing in the loving embrace with the Almighty God. Your spirit will live in me.
I’m here on June 25, 2020, “and I wouldn’t stop there...” “The nation is sick, ...” “Something is happening in our world.” “We want to be free.” “I am happy God has allowed me to live in this period.” “We are poor people when you compare us to white society in America.” “Collectively we are richer than Russia, Great Britain, the American Negro is richer,...”. “As I move to my conclusion.” “Let us move on..”. “ I want to thank god for allowing me to be here today.”
I’m crying listening to the end of his speech. The tears keep rolling down my face. I hurt inside because I know that Dr King’s life as we knew it would be snatch from us and I’m truly sorry for that. However, I truly thank God for his life. To me he was the sacrificial lamb for the black and brown race. He laid his life down so that people of color could be treated with dignity and respect. Many famous black celebrities, sports stars, intellectuals and regular people of colour owe him a gratitude of respect for what he endured.
😢sadlyblack brown and all out her races of employees are STILL being abused for profit Worse now than before Jesus was his inspiration Don’t ever forget who HE SERVED. Jesus !
The problem is he was a sacrificial lamb. We did it for phil, but we were supposed to feel those celebrities or not. I don’t know I’m just saying that right now We did not fulfill that dignity that he wanted us to half, and instead we folded like an earthquake ridden building
If you are a believer and know anything at all about the Spirit's anointing, you will know that this man was touched by God's power and Spirit. There is no doubt. This man, who was touched by the hand of God, touched history in a way that has rarely been seen before or since. When you listen to his words, you are listening to the voice of God speaking to you through him. Amazing!
It takes a true GOD sent man to deliver this type of speech, it's just so scary that you could hear in his voice that he knew his time was coming. I don't know if he was scared or what but there's an essence of calm in his voice it's almost like he didn't write it. Gives me chills.
I believe Jesus's grace and peace was covering his spirit. That power, Holy Spirit, essentially guided Martin and allowed us to bear witness to his testimony of the power of Jesus Christ. I am so thankful for us to hear it in audio and see it in video as it blessed me and generations thereafter who were born later. God bless you all and your families.
To this day every time I listen to his speech it gives me chills. I wish I was alive at that time. I don't think people at that time knew history was being made right before their very eyes. So powerful. God is good all the time. R.I.P. MLK JR
in the documentary "King in the Wilderness" on TH-cam Harry Belefonte said King had a tick/shake... Then the Tick/Shake disappeared...Harry asked him how did the tick leave...Martin said, "I made my peace with death"...smh
Oh yeah. He knew what was coming and knew speaking truth is more important than anything, most especially when you've got the ears and eyes of the population - the entire population.
My favorite Dr King quote, The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in times of comfort and convenience but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. The greatest orator ever and one of the greatest men to ever walk this earth. I've heard this speech at least 10 times and each time I get something different from it. 2am in the morning during the covid 2020 and I'm still listening. Love this man ✊
I needed to hear someone powerful today - June 2020!! Hate killed a great man who loved. Yet his voice and legacy never died. We are still listening today. The world will never shut out this voice. It will be carried from generation to infinity.
Wow! I have listened to this speech in full a dozen times over the years. It still moves me like it did the first time I heard it. In MY opinion it is his best speech. So powerful.
I remember the night they killed him, there was a certain stillness in the air as well as an eerie quietness. when my sister and I walked into the house our mother was crying and extremely upset, when we asked her what was wrong; she said, "Lord Have Mercy,They Just Killed Dr. King".
Wilma Walker my mom told the same story to me coming up in 70s I was fasticated with him even as a small child and I'm still moved my him and I am in my 40s now how powerful God oh Mighty is for this still to move us to today .
This speech will always be relevant! Dr. King had such a deep connection with God! That he will always be in our lives, our children's lives and generation's to come! Thank You God for Your son, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.🙏🏼
Happy Birthday Dr. King...Praise the Lord...He said he dont fear man...his eyes had seen the Glory of the coming of the Lord..oh Hallelujah! ...I hope everyone paid attention to those last words...Jesus is coming back!!!so glad I decided to make Jesus my choice!
Moves me to tears. May we all seek the wisdom that Mr. King had. He did more than lead the civil rights movement. He stood with principles and demanded liberty.
Beautiful ❤❤❤ Love love love this every time I hear it. God bless you, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Thank you so much for your Service and Servitude to this country.
These speeches are church to me. I am white and remember the '60s. I was 10 when he died in Memphis. I went to the Lorraine Motel last March on a cold lonely Sunday morning. This is all very moving and not of this world, in the sense Jesus refers to. Hey there fellow spirit people, listen to your inner voice: it is the voice of the Lamb.
rip brother martin. The black community sure could use you now, especially here in memphis. I cry when I think this is yhe place you died to help us here, and now we are killing each other. The white man is not our only worries now, it is men including black. Rest yet for a little season dr king.
African Americans kill themselves because of the prison industrial complex. You force so many men into prison and they have no choice up to become more violent. In the 60s, the war was between minorities and the system of Jim Crowe. Now the wars is a more covert war. The real struggle of the black community is the struggle to get them to vote. No change can be had in America if African Americans don't vote.
Chimera1591 African Americans overwhelming voted for Obama, so when does that pay off? We may need to continue to develop our own solutions outside their system.
Chimera1591 wrong! it's not about blacks voting. The whole American social, economic, financial, Educational structure must be changed. But its not going to happen according to scripture. America will fall.. that's God's plan. America has done so much wickedness and is engulfed in sin that God has to destroy it. The Bible has to fulfill. Evil will not go unpunished.. in God's time perfectly people will pay. We've elected many people to office but the bigot are continuing to cheat the process : 2018 Florida governor-cheated away from gullium. 2018 Georgia governor -cheated away from Stacey Abram and finally. Mississippi Senate 2018 cheated away from Mike espy. So' it's clear. But those whom have made men and women your servants/slave will repay for the hardships and burdens.
This holy man changed my life in 1998 in Austin Texas at Barns& Noble’s books and I read his 1963 Strength to Love its golden prose of a love for all humankind’s poor and broken lost ones gave me a standard of ethics which forces me to NOT be adjusted to injustice and how us whites whom have enjoyed the labor of others must repent and seek redemption for our collective sin against God and man.
The book "Strength To Love" is important and valuable. It is also quite incomplete. Basically it is important to read Letter From A Birmingham Jail and other public letters from Dr. King to understand his thought and intention. I have studied Freedom Summer and the lives and political work of Dr. King and Malcolm X. We lost both these men, one Christian and one Muslim, and these were severe losses for all Americans and the progress of social discourse. As a white boy I carry NO "collective sin against God and man". We Buddhist teachers deal with karma, not a creator god. I fight injustice. Specifically I fought the traitorous corrupt Democrats and Political Islam all of 2016 on behalf of human rights. It's a small group of activists but we get the job done. I fight for key human rights, meaning free thought, free speech, and free assembly, and against violence against civilians, on several continents. This fight has nothing to do with race. It is about politics and culture. Now the American body politic is severely divided in terms of public discourse and fundamentally divergent perspectives, and 2017 will bring much more political strife. That is an important issue, and it is a struggle between those who support basic humanitarian principles and the open society, and those who actively oppose these principles and who oppose the free societies in the name of anti-social identity politics. The anti-social identity politics includes BlackLivesMatter, and I have studied them in depth. There is no middle ground, and I have made a determined choice to fight for the free open and egalitarian society. That society requires a baseline of fairness, respect and co-operation which is often not found in the views of many major political types today. The basis for that free open and egalitarian society is simply free speech, due process and equality under the law. Those are worth fighting for, and I fight the good fight.
I respect your commitment to justice for all it is needed. AS my post suggests I come from a Biblical background however, I only believe in the philosophy of the Gospels. Unity is more valuable then division to me. I support non-violence and collective actions and protests against social ills. As Fredrick Douglas said in 1848. “I support anyone who does right and no one who does wrong”. With the Blacklivesmatter group I see good and negative elements but largely I applaud their efforts.
Jeremy Reagan BlackLivesMatter thugs promote cop-killing and they are vicious racist scum. Half of them are sociopaths and the other half are psychopaths. I have fully investigated BLM and have posted substantial material on them.
I have not researched their ideology so I am not competent to comment as to their motives. I study more slavery, and white nationalism. It is our system of power which interests me.
Well, dont go thinking MLK wouldnt be for Trump. Most, if not all aa pastors that have met with Trump say he's not racist. Sharpton and Jackson do not qualify as pastors. Trump has bragged continously about low aa unemployment. If you look at bad aa communities you'll find they're all ran by democrats who CLAIM to be for them. Baltimores been ran by democrats for over 40 years and has a steady decline. Democrats hate Trump because he's TRYING to improve aa along with all Americans lives. Stop listening to propaganda, liberal media and start looking at facts. I find it hard to believe Dr King would be a democrat in todays society. He was a pastor, so no way he could be part of a baby killing, immoral lifestyle loving, God hating, lying, corrupt, RACIST democrat party that's so full of HATE.
Wow! Every time I hear this speech I know their is a mighty God and his word will be fulfilled in the world by man. " I AM GLAD THAT GOD HAS ALLOWED HIM TO LIVE IN THIS ERA My God... We are God's children! These words were good then but can be used right now in 2019.
I feel very inspired listening to this 50 years after MLK was tragically assassinated. We have much work still left to be done, and cannot forget our mission. “We shall overcome!”
💕Martin Luther King Jr.💕 Was and Still is a Powerful Black Man in Death 🙏🏽 He will NEVER be Forgotten. You killed the Man but You will NOT kill His Dream Ever 🙏🏽 Rest in Peace Martin Luther King 💕 The World Loves You and Miss You and We Thank You for Everything 💕
I needed to hear Martin Luther King Jr. speak today. I was set on fire in my own heart of what God had been already doing for years. It’s is the same message. God is doing this and I know this is the last days of criminals and the beginning of the Promise Land! We the People! Martin Luther King Jr.!! We love you our brother forever! JJR✝️🇺🇸🤟🏽
I remember the first time I heard the Dr. speak , i was a young man who barely spoke English , having just immigrated from Latin America, I found myself one morning on a bus going home from my daily basketball game at the local Y.M.C.A, suddenly a beautiful young black woman was checking me out, I summoned the courage to ask for her phone number and that weekend we went out to see Richard Pryor live at the sunset strip , afterwards she took me to her neighborhood, Germantown , Philadelphia, we stopped at a local bar , I remember everyone there was black , I was the only hispanic there , Roberto duran had just given sugar Ray Leonard a beating , so her friends called me Duran. It was getting late and she took me to her house , there we started to play stripped poker , and I was losing fast, when suddenly I heard someone coming down the stairs , it was her father ...You, he said pointing at me , I stood up, only wearing my tidy whites , yes sir? ....get that hell out of my house !. I have never got dress so fast in my life, I run to the door and without saying goodbye, I left. I found myself in the streets , the sun was coming up and from a neighbors house I hear this powerful voice speak , I had no idea who he was or what he was saying , I had to idea where I was or where i was going , but he moved me , his voice was only a sound to a young man who didn't speak English, but it was powerful, it was captivating, without meaning to my ears this man managed to get inside my soul and shake it , so I can only imagine if you have walked his walk and feel his pain , and now , 50 years later , we have a man who says nothing inspirational, who spews hatred and divisiveness , and he gets elected president. Life it's so unfair . Thank you Dr king , you are an inspiration to me .
We are in need of a Martin Luther King today, Our people are so lost, blind,! We don't love our brothers and sister's, we are killing each other. King spoke on love, Jesus Christ love, caring about your black brother and sister's, but also white, brown, yellow brother's. We need GOD to send us a man so we can come together and make that a great country! GOD Bless Martin Luther King and his wonderful messages. They are alive and so is his Spirit. Peace @Love
Dear Martin, as I listen to your last sermon, I come away with that "PUSH ALONE" feeling. I gave birth 27 years ago to a beautiful black woman! Then I saw the truth. Dear Martin, Many of us teach our children black history and I love you so much.
A humble, beautiful,powerful man. Few humans inspire me the way this man does. I feel such a soul connection to him. My beautiful brother, in all respect Martin, bless you. You powerful brother, a force they could not reckon with. A flame they felt they had to extinguish. It didn't work. Your words ring true today. My whole heart lives you and feels you. I'll see you in the promised land.
This is why the Critical Race Theory movement will never win. White kids will learn about slavery and Jim Crow from the internet, and their Black friends. Truth crushed to the earth ALWAYS rises...
He's my biggest hero. And though I'm afraid to be as strong in my heart as he was, it's encouraging to know that he struggled with all of the stress. Even more encouraging is how full of joy he was. I'm so thankful for him.
Whoever dislike this video don't have any understanding or heart for humanity or love for God thank you Dr King for you wisdom and understanding thank you so much
We as matured adults, have a high degree of sense in realizing when another matured adult is in truth, and should be listen too... We a great man comes to the end of his road, after walking with God for most of his life, he has the gift of perception and/or prophecy... Just like Jesus prayed to God in the garden, to let this encounter pass from him, but all the time knowing that, this was his purpose in life; just as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., knew that there was trouble ahead, but this faith in God, gave him the courage to do what he had to do... It takes a great man to have faith in God to the point of death... That's why he still lives today, in all of God's children...
Our beloved Martin epitomized what it means to be a great orator and a great American. He was a black man and black people can, and always will, claim him as one of theirs. Those of us who are white know also that we can all claim him. All of us can be proud that this extraordinary, courageous, loving and gifted genius was an American. He uplifted all of us. With his patient, insistent and learned call to our better angels he brought us together. His simple heroism, his eloquent words appealing to the best within us were an unmistakable sign of his faith in the decency of his fellow citizens no matter their color. He told us that "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." He was right. Thank goodness that those who mattered were there at the right moment to assure that a day honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would become now and forevermore a national holiday. Happy ML King Day my fellow Americans. Let's celebrate and continue in the work in which he believed.
the thought of this man never existing is bone chilling. I thank Dr. Martin Luther King for what he did, along with all those beside him. let us not forget that he was not alone. and I assure that he rather not be recognized all himself. God bless his soul for he did not only help my fellow black brothers l but my people too, the Hispanics. and many more races I am sure. I love this man, and I am not ashamed to say it. I can listen to him preach all day. we need more people like him today. may God hear me, and deliver us from evil, for dark times are coming and we need real heroes. not like the actor and fantasy factors one sees on the cubed frames on walls and devices. oh! Sir Dr. Martin Luther King where art thou? I hope the time to return Jesús is now.
"Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent."
Some of the greatest words I ever heard.
A King walked among us
Thenkyou So I Have a Dream
Ryan C. Engineering Amen 🙏🏾
Yeah ....that is pretty badass, that one there.
Amen.
Every time I cry at the end. He fought to the finish. He ran the race.
And he stood at the mountaintop
He fought the good fight...
I'm not worried about anything, I'm not fearing any man ! MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY OF THE COMING OF THE LORD !!... What a speech !
Amen brother!!!
Every time I hear this knowing what’s going to transpire 24 hrs later is haunting….it’s like he knew , and he was ready…. 39 years old …imagine how much he could have accomplished in the second half of his life…. Thank you Brother King …
He was only getting started. He had hit critical mass. He became bigger than the whole infrastructure that ran the nation in that moment. In this speech. In their eyes they had no option than to kill him. What he accomplished from 1st assassination attempt. Man. He was ready to go so he went for the jagular. And so it was.
@@thedichoticdilemma8911Indeed!!!
People who don't live by action will always judge somebody who actually stood up and acted
Wow! That's deep bro!!
Very wise words. Faith will move moutains.
Brother, turn their chains into wings.
That’s with out a doubts facts.
Very good thought!
One of the greatest speeches of all time. Without hyperbole.
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Matthew Bakke Amen 🙏🏾
We're all Gods masterpieces
Greatest orator and advocate for human rights. Not just black right s
Truth, and he predicted his own death, which is something that, if a white person had done it, would be known to every American.
As a white American, I would be so honored if a a man as brilliant and brave as King, Jr. would call me a "friend," and although it is unpopular today, I honor his words, and try to live by his example.
Nowadays, people will judge me for being a white man who lectures non-white people on the teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr., but if he could be here today, I am confident he would stand beside me, because he and I agree that the color of our skin doesn't mean shit.
It is only the content of our characters that matters. Nothing else. Only one thing.
Probably one the most courageous men who ever lived, in the face of so much hate and violence and daily death threats, his focus and justly cause never wavered. We as Americans should feel proud to have this great man as our brother of all races, a protector of the downtrodden, a man of principal for non violence, and a tremendous civil rights warrior. As I listen to this speech, I am moved beyond words can describe. Truly, Doctor Martin Luther King Jr will go down in the annuals of history as one of the greatest human beings who have ever graced this earth for untold generations to come.
Long live your memory Doctor King, for you will forever be the champion of the great masses of people of this World. God bless you.
hey guys love
Amen.
He was a real man use by God to do His Will.He never worry but he love every race and justic for all human.He never worry about his family but he was concern about your family and others family He never put nothing before God will.That why he was able to go to mountain top and saw the promises God now let each of us live those promises right now!!!👨👩👧👧😇💜☝️.
dennis N Name me a more courageous and righteous person ?
King of All Kings!!!
Anyone who gave this speech a thumbs down need to go do some self examination and some praying
kimA aldridge wow
@@serenagreen2600 - the ONLY KING is Jesus Christ you blasphemer -
@@negro722 Stop calling people names. She's referring to Dr. King. It's not kind for you to speak to Susie that way. Jesus Christ would be disappointed. Show love, not confrontation.
@@kevinhwilson7663 - I hardly think Jesus would disagree with me pointing out someone blaspheming His name - and I could care less what you think, so....
@@negro722 EXACTLY. That's the point. Jesus calls for us to be FISHERS OF MEN. We are SUPPOSED TO CARE., but you DO NOT. And that has been made abundantly clear. But that's your personal walk and you will have to answer to God for your behavior just like everyone else. I just need others who come to this post to know that not all followers of Christ think and behave like you..... By the way, you need to search the scriptures and research what blasphemy actually is... cuz this aint it and your rebuke is incorrectly placed.
I break down crying and sobbing every time I hear Dr King’s last speech
Me too.
My family's house in Memphis at that time lay not 5 miles from where this speech was given. I grew up hearing hate and revulsion for this man. My tears are flowing right alongside yours.
Even more poignant when he said about getting to the Promised Land. 😕
What a great and blessed man
Ur not the only one.x
Great speech. I actually think this is way better than the "I Have a Dream " speech. His emotion and letting everyone know in so many words, he knew he was gonna die, but he wasn't afraid. The ending always gets me in my heart.
He said just a few years in the 20th century and that’s all he live
I feel absolutely terrible. I feel absolutely embarrassed that this man is dead and we are way way behind where he even started. We are in the fucking nightmare we are, and we have no clue how bad we are right now really sad to hear the speech for him to have a dream him to go to the mountaintop and for us to seek it all sink sink it all sink it all. I know it changed when they stop showing the new generation after me the water hose is the dog still marches in school. I saw that all the way up until my senior year pretty much which was like 1991 well more like up to my eighth grade year, but I noticed the new generation never saw that stuff. They didn’t know what their forefathers even fought for let alone the generation before them, and before me, decide to say, those knuckleheads can raise themselves. That’s one of the main reasons the younger kids win against the grain and decided to raised him selves and take nobody else’s advice or anything like that it’s really really really really sad right now the predicament, Blacks have themselves in. and I’m not gonna lie they had it planned out for us and we beat the beat not only did we bite the beat we ate the fucking line now we can’t get over throats so just imagine that that’s what we are Black people dare you continue on with this nonsense, killings condoning ghetto ism, saying songs that are demonic are talent, demonic people saying they’re talented and heroes they’re not heroes, watching TV shows like BMF and glamorizing that lifestyle that lifestyle tore a lot of families up drugs, annihilated black neighborhoods, and we put those same people that ran those organizations on pedestals the black ones let alone the white ones we don’t even know about all, we know, we just ignore again all those shows the print the depict Black people As just drug dealing drama field nightmare type culture that’s not OK so I wish we would make a decision and decide to change as one. The predicament we are now in full Connor was alive. A dumb ass would be probably going through the same thing that they went through in the 60s that how dumb we become. Black folks this speech was over 50 years ago and look at the fuck who you are now absolutely embarrassing you have no idea what this man did just for you to even walk around instead do you wanna walk around calling women derogative names or women wanna walk around and have sex with everybody like it’s the thing to do when one ignore their kids now because They’re so busy on social media getting likes, the same likes that he allegedly tried to get from the meets their meats and treating them like absolute shit because there’s no satisfaction is just a no chaser blacks look at where we are now how dare us stay in here and even attempt to have dignity
He said a few years in the second half of the 20th century…… he knew he wasn’t going to experience any of it …. Couldn’t imagine being 39 years old with 4 kids and a wife, Knowing for a fact your days were numbered…. Every night of an assassination prior to his (Kennedy , Malcolm , Evers ,) we can’t even fathom how he felt before he laid to sleep those nights
Amen
Agreed. This is his greatest speech in my opinion in its complete bravery, truth and ferocity.
The man is just brilliant. One of the greatest orators of our time.
Q,
he came to speak to our time, to teach snd preach, to lift up, and remind us, not to give up.
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troy mcclain name me a better orator
He's a genius who is recognized in form, but not in function.
People say they love MLK, Jr., but few of them understand his genius, and fewer understand his moral philosophy.
Listening to this is like washing your soul.
Yes. What a lovely thought.
Ivan Bunny Amen 🙏🏾 Powerful Speech!!
Yes
This...
Yeah, it reminds us of what's important and now Dr. King is with God and he wouldn't want to be back here. No one would.
THIS SPEECH NEEDS TO BE HEARD BY EVERYONE TODAY
True. I'm glad I found it.
Only reason why I'm watching is from school but it's interesting
And again today!
Any person who listens to this and is not touched and moved in a positive way is not human.
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It made me go take a good shit
terri dellinger I bet u are a trump supporter
the white people still have this hate fear of us he talk of whites blacks asians gender
No.
But this white boy is a determined opponent of the vicious antisocial BlackLives and the great enemy Political Islam.
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Jeremy Reagan 2 hours ago
This holy man changed my life in 1998 in Austin Texas at Barns& Noble’s books and I read his 1963 Strength to Love its golden prose of a love for all humankind’s poor and broken lost ones gave me a standard of ethics which forces me to NOT be adjusted to injustice and how us whites whom have enjoyed the labor of others must repent and seek redemption for our collective sin against God and man.
WCANGEL:
The book "Strength To Love" is important and valuable.
It is also quite incomplete.
Basically it is important to read Letter From A Birmingham Jail and other public letters from Dr. King to understand his thought and intention.
I have studied Freedom Summer and the lives and political work of Dr. King and Malcolm X.
We lost both these men, one Christian and one Muslim, and these were severe losses for all Americans and the progress of social discourse.
As a white boy I carry NO "collective sin against God and man".
We Buddhist teachers deal with karma, not a creator god.
I fight injustice.
Specifically I fought the traitorous corrupt Democrats and Political Islam all of 2016 on behalf of human rights. It's a small group of activists but we get the job done.
I fight for key human rights, meaning free thought, free speech, and free assembly, and against violence against civilians, on several continents.
This fight has nothing to do with race. It is about politics and culture.
Now the American body politic is severely divided in terms of public discourse and fundamentally divergent perspectives, and 2017 will bring much more political strife.
That is an important issue, and it is a struggle between those who support basic humanitarian principles and the open society, and those who actively oppose these principles and who oppose the free societies in the name of anti-social identity politics.
The anti-social identity politics includes BlackLivesMatter, and I have studied them in depth.
There is no middle ground, and I have made a determined choice to fight for the free open and egalitarian society.
That society requires a baseline of fairness, respect and co-operation which is often not found in the views of many major political types today.
The basis for that free open and egalitarian society is simply free speech, due process and equality under the law.
Those are worth fighting for, and I fight the good fight.
I am both ashamed and grateful that - at 56 - I’m discovering this speech for the first time. It is a masterpiece of faith and inspiration. He truly was and is one of God’s Great Examples. I have no doubt he was greeted above with joy and love, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he reacted with humility and asked, “Did i do enough? What can i do from here?” What a Great Man. Dr. King lived up to his family name. Love him.
I believe God told him that he would die soon. And this speech is him, it's hard to explain, but I think it's Dr King kind of reconciling his own death, and preparing himself and his people for the inevitable. It's almost like he's preaching the fear out of his own body. This is one, giant, incredible prayer by a man who has been revealed the other side. I'm not sure if that makes sense, but it's how I interpret it. It's a soldiers prayer before certain death.
Well said. 🙏🏽♥️
Dr King did all his great work, without the power of the internet and cell phone cameras! Take pause and IMAGINE
Facts
Truth spoken!
Said It"" you are so Right''
YES!!! REMEMBER TALKING TO EACH OTHER?
Why do good men live less?
who is here 2019 listening to this GREAT MAN #2021 im here again✊
Dont comment for "likes". Comment to plant seeds of awakening.
I'm still listening
Absolutely. We need awakening. The Shadow Government that took out Jack, Martin, and Bobby is still with us.
Listening in 2020
@@destinchase me too
This man was a gift from god!!!!!!
+Rodrick Harris thank you yes he was
Adonis Sesson He died so that we would always remember the struggle and his sacrifice. Listen to his speech on Vietnam and parallel it to today.
He was a better christian than most white professing christians combined. Its embarrassing
man is not separate from God, it is time to wake up dear children of light. you are all expressions of the divine, no less than the God you have been taught to stand under
yep - god - small "g"....
I listen to this a lot..I may wake up in the morning not feeling good about life..I listen to this man and I watch the pure sincerity and determination on his face..it inspires me.this was a truly great man....everyone that isn't pure moved by his words is crazy..this is what a hero..and a leader looks like.. young folks this is someone to look up to and show respect.
I can’t hear this man’s voice without crying. He gave his life...I pray he is resting peacefully...🙌🏾🙏🏾😢 Rev. Dr. MLK Day 2020...
ENaTasha W 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿♥️
glad to know i'm not the only one who started crying... We need him so much these days.
SentioBonus Tremendously!!!
Here with you
I remember in the summer of last year in 2015 I went to a museum and I listened to this speech. Now I didn't know who was speaking at first and I didn't know the name or anything. But I stayed and listened and it made me cry. People say young kids don't have any appreciation but I'm young in the 6th grade actually and I appreciate this man everyday when I look around and when I'm with my friends together not separate he had and still makes a big impact on us till this day and I thank him for that. Thank you.
RIght on, rock on, Bri.
You know what you have to do.
Bri Wooten thank you for those words❤️❤️
Bri Wooten Amen 🙏🏾
Good on you. Keep listening and doing your own thinking. The world needs more individuals like you.
He knew they were going to kill him, but he also knew our future at the time of this speech. ❤ and here we are, yes we still going, but here we are and we WILL get to a world of love, peace, and equality and empathy. ❤️
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This is what the Holy Spirit can do, if we would let Him work through us. How amazing.
that comment was directed to an atheist who was bad mouthing the Holy Spirit and it seems he has chosen to delete his comment - sorry for the mixup. I'm deleting my comment to eliminate any further confusion. Thanks.
@CrossRoads Between The Worlds Amen.
Amen🙏🏿
@Arthur Anderson AMEN!
If you can provide a complete instruction manual of how He can work through us, that's be awesome.
As for reality, the Shes seem to have as much wisdom as the Hes, although the Hes are more likely to take credit.
Unbelievable discernment and truth. No wonder the enemy wanted to take him out. He was opening peoples eyes. Why is this speech not played in school across America. I never heard of this speech in school….
Too much truth in it. TRUTH WILL SET US FREE and freedom is not what they want. 🙏🏾💜
What a time, what a movement that swept the earth Dr. King was sent by God as that of a Moses to go before Pharaohs to let his people go. Rest In Him DR. KING
he was truly a prophet
Emmanuel Jones I was raised to believe that all men and women are created equal by this man's words and character. He spoke to us all as people first by making it clear that we can forgive, and as a white man I truly appreciate that ability, and also appreciate the gift of a United States of People that I was raised in. Secondly we can move forward together without the fear of reprisal from our government. He made it obvious that disregard comes at our own peril and to the peril of those not given the chance to exist due to our blindness. It brings me to tears everytime I hear hear his voice. His words could not be overlooked once they left his lips and are still amongst the breaths we breathe today, and with this breath i was given, I say to him, thank you.
Emmanuel Jones Moses came to separate the people from Pharaoh not integrate them. Elijah Muhammad was God's man like Moses.
Tanner Mulford POWERFUL WORDS
Powerful
“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord..” There were a few powerful statements but for this to be his last words of his last sermon. “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.”
Whew.
Read the full speech (I'm sure you have) King gave in front of the statehouse in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965. The March from Selma. Stunning poetry!
Mr. King's purpose was above government, it was above money and above the most "powerful" people in the world, because I am confident when i say that God Himself reached out to King. And King opened his heart to the true King and assumed his purpose handed down to him by the most high, without fear, or stutter in his step. I love Mlk for that courage.
I couldn't hope for anything more fervently than for Dr. King to have gone to heaven.
@@ActiveServo12 He did. He was annointed.
@@myblacklab7 meaning you wanted him dead?
Dr. King was like Jesus, he turned the other cheek when appropriate and protested for equal rights without using violence in the 1960's.
Dr. King impressed me to no end. I still idolize him for his ability to lead and create the force of change through brilliant speeches and adopting a divine attitude.
This speech never gets old and it saddens me with great regret of the relevancy of it 50 years later...We've got some difficult days ahead...
Well said
Troy, I can see you wrote this seven years ago but I have to validate that you are so right. I look back at childhood and the shock that I felt the day Dr King was shot and I wondered what the world would become. I am sixty three in a few days and I truly believe Satan is out of the pit. The word tells us there will be wars and rumors of wars but the cruelty and hate in the world today really frightens me.
The world needs men like him today.
Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about. It's always good to have your closest friend and associate to say something good about you. And Ralph Abernathy is the best friend that I have in the world. I'm delighted to see each of you here tonight in spite of a storm warning. You reveal that you are determined to go on anyhow.
Something is happening in Memphis; something is happening in our world. And you know, if I were standing at the beginning of time, with the possibility of taking a kind of general and panoramic view of the whole of human history up to now, and the Almighty said to me, "Martin Luther King, which age would you like to live in?" I would take my mental flight by Egypt and I would watch God's children in their magnificent trek from the dark dungeons of Egypt through, or rather across the Red Sea, through the wilderness on toward the promised land. And in spite of its magnificence, I wouldn't stop there.
I would move on by Greece and take my mind to Mount Olympus. And I would see Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Euripides and Aristophanes assembled around the Parthenon. And I would watch them around the Parthenon as they discussed the great and eternal issues of reality. But I wouldn't stop there.
I would go on, even to the great heyday of the Roman Empire. And I would see developments around there, through various emperors and leaders. But I wouldn't stop there.
I would even come up to the day of the Renaissance, and get a quick picture of all that the Renaissance did for the cultural and aesthetic life of man. But I wouldn't stop there.
I would even go by the way that the man for whom I am named had his habitat. And I would watch Martin Luther as he tacked his ninety-five theses on the door at the church of Wittenberg. But I wouldn't stop there.
I would come on up even to 1863, and watch a vacillating President by the name of Abraham Lincoln finally come to the conclusion that he had to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. But I wouldn't stop there.
I would even come up to the early thirties, and see a man grappling with the problems of the bankruptcy of his nation. And come with an eloquent cry that we have nothing to fear but "fear itself." But I wouldn't stop there.
Strangely enough, I would turn to the Almighty, and say, "If you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the 20th century, I will be happy."
Now that's a strange statement to make, because the world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around. That's a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century in a way that men, in some strange way, are responding.
Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee -- the cry is always the same: "We want to be free."
And another reason that I'm happy to live in this period is that we have been forced to a point where we are going to have to grapple with the problems that men have been trying to grapple with through history, but the demands didn't force them to do it. Survival demands that we grapple with them. Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.
And also in the human rights revolution, if something isn't done, and done in a hurry, to bring the colored peoples of the world out of their long years of poverty, their long years of hurt and neglect, the whole world is doomed. Now, I'm just happy that God has allowed me to live in this period to see what is unfolding. And I'm happy that He's allowed me to be in Memphis.
I can remember -- I can remember when Negroes were just going around as Ralph has said, so often, scratching where they didn't itch, and laughing when they were not tickled. But that day is all over. We mean business now, and we are determined to gain our rightful place in God's world.
And that's all this whole thing is about. We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying -- We are saying that we are God's children. And that we are God's children, we don't have to live like we are forced to live.
Now, what does all of this mean in this great period of history? It means that we've got to stay together. We've got to stay together and maintain unity. You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite, favorite formula for doing it. What was that? He kept the slaves fighting among themselves. But whenever the slaves get together, something happens in Pharaoh's court, and he cannot hold the slaves in slavery. When the slaves get together, that's the beginning of getting out of slavery. Now let us maintain unity.
Secondly, let us keep the issues where they are. The issue is injustice. The issue is the refusal of Memphis to be fair and honest in its dealings with its public servants, who happen to be sanitation workers. Now, we've got to keep attention on that. That's always the problem with a little violence. You know what happened the other day, and the press dealt only with the window-breaking. I read the articles. They very seldom got around to mentioning the fact that one thousand, three hundred sanitation workers are on strike, and that Memphis is not being fair to them, and that Mayor Loeb is in dire need of a doctor. They didn't get around to that.
Now we're going to march again, and we've got to march again, in order to put the issue where it is supposed to be -- and force everybody to see that there are thirteen hundred of God's children here suffering, sometimes going hungry, going through dark and dreary nights wondering how this thing is going to come out. That's the issue. And we've got to say to the nation: We know how it's coming out. For when people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.
We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do. I've seen them so often. I remember in Birmingham, Alabama, when we were in that majestic struggle there, we would move out of the 16th Street Baptist Church day after day; by the hundreds we would move out. And Bull Connor would tell them to send the dogs forth, and they did come; but we just went before the dogs singing, "Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around."
Bull Connor next would say, "Turn the fire hoses on." And as I said to you the other night, Bull Connor didn't know history. He knew a kind of physics that somehow didn't relate to the transphysics that we knew about. And that was the fact that there was a certain kind of fire that no water could put out. And we went before the fire hoses; we had known water. If we were Baptist or some other denominations, we had been immersed. If we were Methodist, and some others, we had been sprinkled, but we knew water. That couldn't stop us.
And we just went on before the dogs and we would look at them; and we'd go on before the water hoses and we would look at it, and we'd just go on singing "Over my head I see freedom in the air." And then we would be thrown in the paddy wagons, and sometimes we were stacked in there like sardines in a can. And they would throw us in, and old Bull would say, "Take 'em off," and they did; and we would just go in the paddy wagon singing, "We Shall Overcome." And every now and then we'd get in jail, and we'd see the jailers looking through the windows being moved by our prayers, and being moved by our words and our songs. And there was a power there which Bull Connor couldn't adjust to; and so we ended up transforming Bull into a steer, and we won our struggle in Birmingham. Now we've got to go on in Memphis just like that. I call upon you to be with us when we go out Monday.
Now about injunctions: We have an injunction and we're going into court tomorrow morning to fight this illegal, unconstitutional injunction. All we say to America is, "Be true to what you said on paper." If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. Maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they hadn't committed themselves to that over there. But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right. And so just as I say, we aren't going to let dogs or water hoses turn us around, we aren't going to let any injunction turn us around. We are going on.
We need all of you. And you know what's beautiful to me is to see all of these ministers of the Gospel. It's a marvelous picture. Who is it that is supposed to articulate the longings and aspirations of the people more than the preacher? Somehow the preacher must have a kind of fire shut up in his bones. And whenever injustice is around he tell it. Somehow the preacher must be an Amos, and saith, "When God speaks who can but prophesy?" Again with Amos, "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream." Somehow the preacher must say with Jesus, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me," and he's anointed me to deal with the problems of the poor."
And I want to commend the preachers, under the leadership of these noble men: James Lawson, one who has been in this struggle for many years; he's been to jail for struggling; he's been kicked out of Vanderbilt University for this struggle, but he's still going on, fighting for the rights of his people. Reverend Ralph Jackson, Billy Kiles; I could just go right on down the list, but time will not permit. But I want to thank all of them. And I want you to thank them, because so often, preachers aren't concerned about anything but themselves. And I'm always happy to see a relevant ministry.
It's all right to talk about "long white robes over yonder," in all of its symbolism. But ultimately people want some suits and dresses and shoes to wear down here! It's all right to talk about "streets flowing with milk and honey," but God has commanded us to be concerned about the slums down here, and his children who can't eat three square meals a day. It's all right to talk about the new Jerusalem, but one day, God's preacher must talk about the new New York, the new Atlanta, the new Philadelphia, the new Los Angeles, the new Memphis, Tennessee. This is what we have to do.
Now the other thing we'll have to do is this: Always anchor our external direct action with the power of economic withdrawal. Now, we are poor people. Individually, we are poor when you compare us with white society in America. We are poor. Never stop and forget that collectively -- that means all of us together -- collectively we are richer than all the nations in the world, with the exception of nine. Did you ever think about that? After you leave the United States, Soviet Russia, Great Britain, West Germany, France, and I could name the others, the American Negro collectively is richer than most nations of the world. We have an annual income of more than thirty billion dollars a year, which is more than all of the exports of the United States, and more than the national budget of Canada. Did you know that? That's power right there, if we know how to pool it.
We don't have to argue with anybody. We don't have to curse and go around acting bad with our words. We don't need any bricks and bottles. We don't need any Molotov cocktails. We just need to go around to these stores, and to these massive industries in our country, and say, "God sent us by here, to say to you that you're not treating his children right. And we've come by here to ask you to make the first item on your agenda fair treatment, where God's children are concerned. Now, if you are not prepared to do that, we do have an agenda that we must follow. And our agenda calls for withdrawing economic support from you."
And so, as a result of this, we are asking you tonight, to go out and tell your neighbors not to buy Coca-Cola in Memphis. Go by and tell them not to buy Sealtest milk. Tell them not to buy -- what is the other bread? -- Wonder Bread. And what is the other bread company, Jesse? Tell them not to buy Hart's bread. As Jesse Jackson has said, up to now, only the garbage men have been feeling pain; now we must kind of redistribute the pain. We are choosing these companies because they haven't been fair in their hiring policies; and we are choosing them because they can begin the process of saying they are going to support the needs and the rights of these men who are on strike. And then they can move on town -- downtown and tell Mayor Loeb to do what is right.
But not only that, we've got to strengthen black institutions. I call upon you to take your money out of the banks downtown and deposit your money in Tri-State Bank. We want a "bank-in" movement in Memphis. Go by the savings and loan association. I'm not asking you something that we don't do ourselves at SCLC. Judge Hooks and others will tell you that we have an account here in the savings and loan association from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. We are telling you to follow what we are doing. Put your money there. You have six or seven black insurance companies here in the city of Memphis. Take out your insurance there. We want to have an "insurance-in."
Now these are some practical things that we can do. We begin the process of building a greater economic base. And at the same time, we are putting pressure where it really hurts. I ask you to follow through here.
Now, let me say as I move to my conclusion that we've got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end. Nothing would be more tragic than to stop at this point in Memphis. We've got to see it through. And when we have our march, you need to be there. If it means leaving work, if it means leaving school -- be there. Be concerned about your brother. You may not be on strike. But either we go up together, or we go down together.
Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness. One day a man came to Jesus, and he wanted to raise some questions about some vital matters of life. At points he wanted to trick Jesus, and show him that he knew a little more than Jesus knew and throw him off base....
Now that question could have easily ended up in a philosophical and theological debate. But Jesus immediately pulled that question from mid-air, and placed it on a dangerous curve between Jerusalem and Jericho. And he talked about a certain man, who fell among thieves. You remember that a Levite and a priest passed by on the other side. They didn't stop to help him. And finally a man of another race came by. He got down from his beast, decided not to be compassionate by proxy. But he got down with him, administered first aid, and helped the man in need. Jesus ended up saying, this was the good man, this was the great man, because he had the capacity to project the "I" into the "thou," and to be concerned about his brother.
Now you know, we use our imagination a great deal to try to determine why the priest and the Levite didn't stop. At times we say they were busy going to a church meeting, an ecclesiastical gathering, and they had to get on down to Jerusalem so they wouldn't be late for their meeting. At other times we would speculate that there was a religious law that "One who was engaged in religious ceremonials was not to touch a human body twenty-four hours before the ceremony." And every now and then we begin to wonder whether maybe they were not going down to Jerusalem -- or down to Jericho, rather to organize a "Jericho Road Improvement Association." That's a possibility. Maybe they felt that it was better to deal with the problem from the causal root, rather than to get bogged down with an individual effect.
But I'm going to tell you what my imagination tells me. It's possible that those men were afraid. You see, the Jericho road is a dangerous road. I remember when Mrs. King and I were first in Jerusalem. We rented a car and drove from Jerusalem down to Jericho. And as soon as we got on that road, I said to my wife, "I can see why Jesus used this as the setting for his parable." It's a winding, meandering road. It's really conducive for ambushing. You start out in Jerusalem, which is about 1200 miles -- or rather 1200 feet above sea level. And by the time you get down to Jericho, fifteen or twenty minutes later, you're about 2200 feet below sea level. That's a dangerous road. In the days of Jesus it came to be known as the "Bloody Pass." And you know, it's possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the robbers were still around. Or it's possible that they felt that the man on the ground was merely faking. And he was acting like he had been robbed and hurt, in order to seize them over there, lure them there for quick and easy seizure. And so the first question that the priest asked -- the first question that the Levite asked was, "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But then the Good Samaritan came by. And he reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
That's the question before you tonight. Not, "If I stop to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to my job. Not, "If I stop to help the sanitation workers what will happen to all of the hours that I usually spend in my office every day and every week as a pastor?" The question is not, "If I stop to help this man in need, what will happen to me?" The question is, "If I do not stop to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to them?" That's the question.
Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation. And I want to thank God, once more, for allowing me to be here with you.
You know, several years ago, I was in New York City autographing the first book that I had written. And while sitting there autographing books, a demented black woman came up. The only question I heard from her was, "Are you Martin Luther King?" And I was looking down writing, and I said, "Yes." And the next minute I felt something beating on my chest. Before I knew it I had been stabbed by this demented woman. I was rushed to Harlem Hospital. It was a dark Saturday afternoon. And that blade had gone through, and the X-rays revealed that the tip of the blade was on the edge of my aorta, the main artery. And once that's punctured, your drowned in your own blood -- that's the end of you.
It came out in the New York Times the next morning, that if I had merely sneezed, I would have died. Well, about four days later, they allowed me, after the operation, after my chest had been opened, and the blade had been taken out, to move around in the wheel chair in the hospital. They allowed me to read some of the mail that came in, and from all over the states and the world, kind letters came in. I read a few, but one of them I will never forget. I had received one from the President and the Vice-President. I've forgotten what those telegrams said. I'd received a visit and a letter from the Governor of New York, but I've forgotten what that letter said. But there was another letter that came from a little girl, a young girl who was a student at the White Plains High School. And I looked at that letter, and I'll never forget it. It said simply,
Dear Dr. King,
I am a ninth-grade student at the White Plains High School."
And she said,
While it should not matter, I would like to mention that I'm a white girl. I read in the paper of your misfortune, and of your suffering. And I read that if you had sneezed, you would have died. And I'm simply writing you to say that I'm so happy that you didn't sneeze.
And I want to say tonight -- I want to say tonight that I too am happy that I didn't sneeze. Because if I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here in 1960, when students all over the South started sitting-in at lunch counters. And I knew that as they were sitting in, they were really standing up for the best in the American dream, and taking the whole nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here in 1961, when we decided to take a ride for freedom and ended segregation in inter-state travel.
If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here in 1962, when Negroes in Albany, Georgia, decided to straighten their backs up. And whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent.
If I had sneezed -- If I had sneezed I wouldn't have been here in 1963, when the black people of Birmingham, Alabama, aroused the conscience of this nation, and brought into being the Civil Rights Bill.
If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have had a chance later that year, in August, to try to tell America about a dream that I had had.
If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been down in Selma, Alabama, to see the great Movement there.
If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been in Memphis to see a community rally around those brothers and sisters who are suffering.
I'm so happy that I didn't sneeze.
And they were telling me --. Now, it doesn't matter, now. It really doesn't matter what happens now. I left Atlanta this morning, and as we got started on the plane, there were six of us. The pilot said over the public address system, "We are sorry for the delay, but we have Dr. Martin Luther King on the plane. And to be sure that all of the bags were checked, and to be sure that nothing would be wrong with on the plane, we had to check out everything carefully. And we've had the plane protected and guarded all night."
And then I got into Memphis. And some began to say the threats, or talk about the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers?
Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind.
Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!
And so I'm happy, tonight.
I'm not worried about anything.
I'm not fearing any man!
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!!
Thanks for transcribing this great speech.
really helpful
Amazing
It's nice to be able to read along while Dr. King speaks. #IAmANativeMemphian Thanks, Dr. King for the ultimate sacrifice your life, legacy, and longevity!!! Yes, Memphis is still Memphis! #MLK50
Wow,Wow,Wow thanks alot im up cant sleep so i don't know how i found this but thanks so very much & i mean it i look @ another speech it was nice its something to cherish & pass it along to my grandkids huh,wow that blueprint it sounds like my words i have to hear it again its like tuned in like my 8day sermons, like i said it's familiar ive heard myself say & MAY GOD THAT 🔥 THAT NO WATER CAN PUT OUT BLESS U & YOUR'S FOREVER & FOREVER,AMEN'& AMEN'........?
Frank CHEN I had to read through, so touching.
Tears in my eyes as I listen to this wise man, he will never die, as long as the spirit of freedom is in the air, as long as change is needed, he is there.
Those of us who listen to this speech is obliged to continue to make a difference in this world 🌎
Not just obligated, but proud to volunteer. Be a blessing. 🙏🏾💜
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MLK.....GOD BLESS YOUR SOUL. Black Lives Matter, All lives matter. Respect and love, from Pakistan
much love my brother
👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
Diesel_Nut84 ameen brother.
Diesel_Nut84 God Bless You Too
Diesel_Nut84 gm
The speech that Americans need to hear over and over again. The blueprint for human rights he reveals here would empower the weak and the poor if they followed his message and his outlined plan of action. Freedom fighters must continue to share this message, this powerful speech in order to enlighten the wanderers who stumble in darkness.
+Malcolm B. Smith And over and over... It could be written in blood, it was paid for in it.
Ivan Sugartail
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Dr. King, I too am glad you didn't sneeze.
this man changed a nation' and shook the very foundation of hell' by the words' i have a dream' i wish i could have know this wonderful man :0)
webe
I watched this the other night and Cried..
Not because I was sad..but because I was touched by the speech and of course by God..
It's sooo powerful..this great speech from Martin Luther king..and it comes from God through him..
You can say it's a an amazing speech or a inspirational speech or even a emotional speech...but I like to just say it's God speaking to all of us....no matter what race or religion,
through in my opinion 1 of the greatest men that has ever lived...MLK..
And the most mind blowing part for me is and I mean mind blowing....is when he says at the end of the speech.....
"I'm not worried about anything, I'm not fearing any man...as my eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord"...
I have no words..
The day after this speech he was assassinated and I believe he knew it was coming..but he had no fear..as he knew were he was going...
Wow..!!..
A great man of God..
Alexander Reilly amen
Today, (1-23-2019) I am much saddened that we have no Martin Luther King. It's a heartbreaking thing - we have no one even close to being like our beloved Martin Luther King.
Today 1-23-20 and this still is one of the best speeches ive heard
XexpastellaX 100%
Trump has been elected. I turned to this speech for guidance.
The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around.
That's a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be.
We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.
And so I'm happy, tonight.
I'm not worried about anything.
I'm not fearing any man!
I have done the same. I'm drawing serious spiritual and emotional sustenance from Dr. King.
And why should America "have to create the wheel' again and again? Or any other nation for that matter? We humans have learned one thing from history...NOTHING! We have technology, so what do we do, use in to hurt one another. Now that's progress. Of course I say that sarcastically. Our only recourse is have faith in God's eternal kingdom which has been promised to us by faith in Jesus Christ..."for all other ground is sinking sand." King said "I've been to the mountain top" but failed to mention how to get there. It's by faith in the Son of God who was victorious over death, hell and the grave (1st Corinthians 15:3,4) Jesus provides both forgiveness of sins and he hope of eternal life. God has provided both the message of salvation by faith in Jesus Christ, as well as the march against oppression when it manifests in societies. But the former must not be removed by the latter and rendered helpless. The need for the call to salvation and discipleship in Christ must not be regulated by our NEW call for civil rights pertaining to one's private behavior. Wasn't King a Christian Minister?
wanderingsun Gives me hope too, when I see how bleak it is..
yes wandering i do too the hate is stronger than it was before the Uncle Toms have joined the race baiter Donald Trump
wanderingsun Trump is the problem you believe huh, you've been deceived already
50 years ago today. Your dream has never died.
Emmett Till I pray that you have seen the mountaintop little brother. Rejoicing in the loving embrace with the Almighty God. Your spirit will live in me.
ChuckTay23 everytime i read about emmet till i want to break into tears, its so sad what was done to that poor boy
+Bryan Southard God bless you brother. Even worse is the fact that a lot of people are still in denial of that whole occurrence.
The woman who accused Emmett Till of "flirting" with her has confessed that she had lied and made it up. That makes his story all the sadder.
I believe he has seen the Mountain top, He's safe now
@@hellokitty524 Carolyn Donham is still alive and lives in North Carolina and her nephew is the Governor of Mississippi
I've listened to this speech so many times. If there is a such thing as the spirit of God, it was moving across that place that night.
I got chills🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Whos here on jan 20th 2020?
Jun 16th 2020
I’m here on June 25, 2020, “and I wouldn’t stop there...” “The nation is sick, ...” “Something is happening in our world.” “We want to be free.” “I am happy God has allowed me to live in this period.”
“We are poor people when you compare us to white society in America.”
“Collectively we are richer than Russia, Great Britain, the American Negro is richer,...”.
“As I move to my conclusion.” “Let us move on..”.
“ I want to thank god for allowing me to be here today.”
Actually, sad. To see how far we've strayed from his message.
August 30th 2020
I’m crying listening to the end of his speech. The tears keep rolling down my face. I hurt inside because I know that Dr King’s life as we knew it would be snatch from us and I’m truly sorry for that. However, I truly thank God for his life. To me he was the sacrificial lamb for the black and brown race. He laid his life down so that people of color could be treated with dignity and respect. Many famous black celebrities, sports stars, intellectuals and regular people of colour
owe him a gratitude of respect for what he endured.
😢sadlyblack brown and all out her races of employees are STILL being abused for profit
Worse now than before
Jesus was his inspiration
Don’t ever forget who HE SERVED. Jesus !
The problem is he was a sacrificial lamb. We did it for phil, but we were supposed to feel those celebrities or not. I don’t know I’m just saying that right now We did not fulfill that dignity that he wanted us to half, and instead we folded like an earthquake ridden building
If you are a believer and know anything at all about the Spirit's anointing, you will know that this man was touched by God's power and Spirit. There is no doubt. This man, who was touched by the hand of God, touched history in a way that has rarely been seen before or since. When you listen to his words, you are listening to the voice of God speaking to you through him. Amazing!
The greatest speech I have ever heard in my entire life. To be a fraction of that man's greatness. We are all better because of him.
It takes a true GOD sent man to deliver this type of speech, it's just so scary that you could hear in his voice that he knew his time was coming. I don't know if he was scared or what but there's an essence of calm in his voice it's almost like he didn't write it. Gives me chills.
I believe Jesus's grace and peace was covering his spirit. That power, Holy Spirit, essentially guided Martin and allowed us to bear witness to his testimony of the power of Jesus Christ. I am so thankful for us to hear it in audio and see it in video as it blessed me and generations thereafter who were born later. God bless you all and your families.
To this day every time I listen to his speech it gives me chills. I wish I was alive at that time. I don't think people at that time knew history was being made right before their very eyes. So powerful. God is good all the time. R.I.P. MLK JR
Phillip Jennings - on the true Passover... 4-3....
in the documentary "King in the Wilderness" on TH-cam Harry Belefonte said King had a tick/shake...
Then the Tick/Shake disappeared...Harry asked him how did the tick leave...Martin said, "I made my peace with death"...smh
Oh yeah. He knew what was coming and knew speaking truth is more important than anything, most especially when you've got the ears and eyes of the population - the entire population.
..Nairobi, Kenya.. we want peace🇰🇪. MLK you live forever in our hearts ♥️
...we r God's children🗺we've got to stay together.
My favorite Dr King quote, The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in times of comfort and convenience but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. The greatest orator ever and one of the greatest men to ever walk this earth. I've heard this speech at least 10 times and each time I get something different from it. 2am in the morning during the covid 2020 and I'm still listening. Love this man ✊
only when it is dark enough can you see the stars
Rest In Peace MLK. my hero
Sabali Piese my favorite
I wonder if Dante inspired that.
I love it
1863 do ur work
I needed to hear someone powerful today - June 2020!! Hate killed a great man who loved. Yet his voice and legacy never died. We are still listening today. The world will never shut out this voice. It will be carried from generation to infinity.
God bless you, Brother. Inspiration never dies, majesty never dies, truth never dies.
Wow! I have listened to this speech in full a dozen times over the years. It still moves me like it did the first time I heard it. In MY opinion it is his best speech. So powerful.
Just listened to it again. Just amazing. “Make America What It Ought to Be”
2020 still hear listening
I can’t listen to it anymore. It’s beyond sad to think how far we’ve strayed from his vision.
I remember the night they killed him, there was a certain stillness in the air as well as an eerie quietness. when my sister and I walked into the house our mother was crying and extremely upset, when we asked her what was wrong; she said, "Lord Have Mercy,They Just Killed Dr. King".
Wilma Walker my mom told the same story to me coming up in 70s I was fasticated with him even as a small child and I'm still moved my him and I am in my 40s now how powerful God oh Mighty is for this still to move us to today .
This speech will always be relevant! Dr. King had such a deep connection with God! That he will always be in our lives, our children's lives and generation's to come! Thank You God for Your son, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.🙏🏼
Happy Birthday Dr. King...Praise the Lord...He said he dont fear man...his eyes had seen the Glory of the coming of the Lord..oh Hallelujah! ...I hope everyone paid attention to those last words...Jesus is coming back!!!so glad I decided to make Jesus my choice!
THIS IS BY FAR ONE OF THE GREATEST SPEECHES EVER GIVEN. R.I.P. DR. KING
Moves me to tears. May we all seek the wisdom that Mr. King had. He did more than lead the civil rights movement. He stood with principles and demanded liberty.
You should hear his reparations speech. Brilliant/100% true.
Beautiful ❤❤❤
Love love love this every time I hear it. God bless you, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Thank you so much for your Service and Servitude to this country.
He had so much SPIRIT. he spoke from spirit. Pure strength. Don’t let anyone make you small. You are gods children ❤️
❤
We’re all Gods children 🙏🏽
These speeches are church to me. I am white and remember the '60s. I was 10 when he died in Memphis. I went to the Lorraine Motel last March on a cold lonely Sunday morning. This is all very moving and not of this world, in the sense Jesus refers to. Hey there fellow spirit people, listen to your inner voice: it is the voice of the Lamb.
A true American God bless him
May all people take action and continue the work of Dr. King. He was truly sent by the Lord to all people.
Mark 1:22 : "The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law."
I'll be shaking this great man's hand when I finally get to heaven. Praise the Lord!
To be blessed with this "Man of GOD, blessed with this True Hero, Teacher, Educator, and Preacher. Thank You Dr. King
💛 thank you for all you did King.
HE didn't do shit
terri dellinger he did more with his life then what you did yours
terri dellinger you are the ignorance and downright disrespect in America, this man and his comment.
So moved and inspired by this speech. We still have much work to do.
How can we get justice on stolen land?
After so many years I still get goosebumps from this speech, one of the best speeches ever.
This is a man blessed by God. Philosophy, Wisdom, and Beauty. Love each other, my friends. Love thy neighbor. We are one. I love you 💕
He was something else man, no one can compare to him. The most powerful speech I've ever heard.
rip brother martin. The black community sure could use you now, especially here in memphis. I cry when I think this is yhe place you died to help us here, and now we are killing each other. The white man is not our only worries now, it is men including black. Rest yet for a little season dr king.
African Americans kill themselves because of the prison industrial complex. You force so many men into prison and they have no choice up to become more violent. In the 60s, the war was between minorities and the system of Jim Crowe. Now the wars is a more covert war.
The real struggle of the black community is the struggle to get them to vote. No change can be had in America if African Americans don't vote.
Chimera1591 African Americans overwhelming voted for Obama, so when does that pay off? We may need to continue to develop our own solutions outside their system.
Chimera1591 wrong! it's not about blacks voting. The whole American social, economic, financial, Educational structure must be changed. But its not going to happen according to scripture. America will fall.. that's God's plan. America has done so much wickedness and is engulfed in sin that God has to destroy it. The Bible has to fulfill. Evil will not go unpunished.. in God's time perfectly people will pay. We've elected many people to office but the bigot are continuing to cheat the process : 2018 Florida governor-cheated away from gullium. 2018 Georgia governor -cheated away from Stacey Abram and finally. Mississippi Senate 2018 cheated away from Mike espy. So' it's clear. But those whom have made men and women your servants/slave will repay for the hardships and burdens.
They doing this to us are you kidding me.they messing us up cause of hate
God intervene through A man again who is ready to live as a sacrifice
My grandfather wuz a great preacher and wen I listen to Martin Luther King Jr. speak it reminds me of my grandfather. RIH MLK and my gdad.
This holy man changed my life in 1998 in Austin Texas at Barns& Noble’s books and I read his 1963 Strength to Love its golden prose of a love for all humankind’s poor and broken lost ones gave me a standard of ethics which forces me to NOT be adjusted to injustice and how us whites whom have enjoyed the labor of others must repent and seek redemption for our collective sin against God and man.
The book "Strength To Love" is important and valuable.
It is also quite incomplete.
Basically it is important to read Letter From A Birmingham Jail and other public letters from Dr. King to understand his thought and intention.
I have studied Freedom Summer and the lives and political work of Dr. King and Malcolm X.
We lost both these men, one Christian and one Muslim, and these were severe losses for all Americans and the progress of social discourse.
As a white boy I carry NO "collective sin against God and man".
We Buddhist teachers deal with karma, not a creator god.
I fight injustice.
Specifically I fought the traitorous corrupt Democrats and Political Islam all of 2016 on behalf of human rights. It's a small group of activists but we get the job done.
I fight for key human rights, meaning free thought, free speech, and free assembly, and against violence against civilians, on several continents.
This fight has nothing to do with race. It is about politics and culture.
Now the American body politic is severely divided in terms of public discourse and fundamentally divergent perspectives, and 2017 will bring much more political strife.
That is an important issue, and it is a struggle between those who support basic humanitarian principles and the open society, and those who actively oppose these principles and who oppose the free societies in the name of anti-social identity politics.
The anti-social identity politics includes BlackLivesMatter, and I have studied them in depth.
There is no middle ground, and I have made a determined choice to fight for the free open and egalitarian society.
That society requires a baseline of fairness, respect and co-operation which is often not found in the views of many major political types today.
The basis for that free open and egalitarian society is simply free speech, due process and equality under the law.
Those are worth fighting for, and I fight the good fight.
I respect your commitment to justice for all it is needed.
AS my post suggests I come from a Biblical background however, I only believe in the philosophy of the Gospels.
Unity is more valuable then division to me. I support non-violence and collective actions and protests against social ills.
As Fredrick Douglas said in 1848. “I support anyone who does right and no one who does wrong”.
With the Blacklivesmatter group I see good and negative elements but largely I applaud their efforts.
Jeremy Reagan
BlackLivesMatter thugs promote cop-killing and they are vicious racist scum.
Half of them are sociopaths and the other half are psychopaths.
I have fully investigated BLM and have posted substantial material on them.
I have not researched their ideology so I am not competent to comment as to their motives.
I study more slavery, and white nationalism. It is our system of power which interests me.
This changes my life every time i listen to it
I needed to listen to him after this election...
god bless
justneedstowork DL I hear that!😟
Well, dont go thinking MLK wouldnt be for Trump. Most, if not all aa pastors that have met with Trump say he's not racist. Sharpton and Jackson do not qualify as pastors. Trump has bragged continously about low aa unemployment. If you look at bad aa communities you'll find they're all ran by democrats who CLAIM to be for them. Baltimores been ran by democrats for over 40 years and has a steady decline. Democrats hate Trump because he's TRYING to improve aa along with all Americans lives. Stop listening to propaganda, liberal media and start looking at facts. I find it hard to believe Dr King would be a democrat in todays society. He was a pastor, so no way he could be part of a baby killing, immoral lifestyle loving, God hating, lying, corrupt, RACIST democrat party that's so full of HATE.
@@jonburrows2684 MLK was a democratic socialist, similar to Bernie Sanders. You're so far off base it's not even funny.
butthurt that your gay muslim messiah is gone?
Wow! Every time I hear this speech I know their is a mighty God and his word will be fulfilled in the world by man. " I AM GLAD THAT GOD HAS ALLOWED HIM TO LIVE IN THIS ERA My God... We are God's children!
These words were good then but can be used right now in 2019.
I feel very inspired listening to this 50 years after MLK was tragically assassinated. We have much work still left to be done, and cannot forget our mission. “We shall overcome!”
💕Martin Luther King Jr.💕 Was and Still is a Powerful Black Man in Death 🙏🏽 He will NEVER be Forgotten. You killed the Man but You will NOT kill His Dream Ever 🙏🏽 Rest in Peace Martin Luther King 💕 The World Loves You and Miss You and We Thank You for Everything 💕
I needed to hear Martin Luther King Jr. speak today. I was set on fire in my own heart of what God had been already doing for years. It’s is the same message. God is doing this and I know this is the last days of criminals and the beginning of the Promise Land! We the People! Martin Luther King Jr.!! We love you our brother forever! JJR✝️🇺🇸🤟🏽
I remember the first time I heard the Dr. speak , i was a young man who barely spoke English , having just immigrated from Latin America, I found myself one morning on a bus going home from my daily basketball game at the local Y.M.C.A, suddenly a beautiful young black woman was checking me out, I summoned the courage to ask for her phone number and that weekend we went out to see Richard Pryor live at the sunset strip , afterwards she took me to her neighborhood, Germantown , Philadelphia, we stopped at a local bar , I remember everyone there was black , I was the only hispanic there , Roberto duran had just given sugar Ray Leonard a beating , so her friends called me Duran. It was getting late and she took me to her house , there we started to play stripped poker , and I was losing fast, when suddenly I heard someone coming down the stairs , it was her father ...You, he said pointing at me , I stood up, only wearing my tidy whites , yes sir? ....get that hell out of my house !. I have never got dress so fast in my life, I run to the door and without saying goodbye, I left. I found myself in the streets , the sun was coming up and from a neighbors house I hear this powerful voice speak , I had no idea who he was or what he was saying , I had to idea where I was or where i was going , but he moved me , his voice was only a sound to a young man who didn't speak English, but it was powerful, it was captivating, without meaning to my ears this man managed to get inside my soul and shake it , so I can only imagine if you have walked his walk and feel his pain , and now , 50 years later , we have a man who says nothing inspirational, who spews hatred and divisiveness , and he gets elected president. Life it's so unfair . Thank you Dr king , you are an inspiration to me .
arturo coello Great story. I'm only in my 30s but listen to his speeches often. He was truly a great orator!
We are in need of a Martin Luther King today, Our people are so lost, blind,! We don't love our brothers and sister's, we are killing each other. King spoke on love, Jesus Christ love, caring about your black brother and sister's, but also white, brown, yellow brother's. We need GOD to send us a man so we can come together and make that a great country! GOD Bless Martin Luther King and his wonderful messages. They are alive and so is his Spirit. Peace @Love
Dear Martin, as I listen to your last sermon, I come away with that "PUSH ALONE" feeling. I gave birth 27 years ago to a beautiful black woman! Then I saw the truth. Dear Martin, Many of us teach our children black history and I love you so much.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIR! YOU'RE A HERO OF OUR NATION!
A humble, beautiful,powerful man. Few humans inspire me the way this man does. I feel such a soul connection to him. My beautiful brother, in all respect Martin, bless you. You powerful brother, a force they could not reckon with. A flame they felt they had to extinguish. It didn't work. Your words ring true today. My whole heart lives you and feels you. I'll see you in the promised land.
Thank you for uploading this. A sobering and critically important piece of American history.
This is why the Critical Race Theory movement will never win. White kids will learn about slavery and Jim Crow from the internet, and their Black friends. Truth crushed to the earth ALWAYS rises...
He's my biggest hero. And though I'm afraid to be as strong in my heart as he was, it's encouraging to know that he struggled with all of the stress. Even more encouraging is how full of joy he was. I'm so thankful for him.
You must close your eyes while listening to this..God Thank you for blessing us with the GREAT MAN.... LONG LIVE DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽😘😘😘🤞🏾
Whoever dislike this video don't have any understanding or heart for humanity or love for God thank you Dr King for you wisdom and understanding thank you so much
This is a speech that I return to whenever my soul needs nourishment. And it always does the job.
We as matured adults, have a high degree of sense in realizing when another matured adult is in truth, and should be listen too... We a great man comes to the end of his road, after walking with God for most of his life, he has the gift of perception and/or prophecy... Just like Jesus prayed to God in the garden, to let this encounter pass from him, but all the time knowing that, this was his purpose in life; just as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., knew that there was trouble ahead, but this faith in God, gave him the courage to do what he had to do... It takes a great man to have faith in God to the point of death... That's why he still lives today, in all of God's children...
Still so true today. I wish people would listen to this great man today.
This man was a prophet! WE must realize the dream
john preston he was!
You mean the agenda that hasn’t been for filled in 50yrs ....
Our beloved Martin epitomized what it means to be a great orator and a great American. He was a black man and black people can, and always will, claim him as one of theirs. Those of us who are white know also that we can all claim him. All of us can be proud that this extraordinary, courageous, loving and gifted genius was an American. He uplifted all of us. With his patient, insistent and learned call to our better angels he brought us together. His simple heroism, his eloquent words appealing to the best within us were an unmistakable sign of his faith in the decency of his fellow citizens no matter their color. He told us that "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." He was right. Thank goodness that those who mattered were there at the right moment to assure that a day honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would become now and forevermore a national holiday. Happy ML King Day my fellow Americans. Let's celebrate and continue in the work in which he believed.
listening to this speech 49 years to the day it was delivered. thanks for uploading. Thank God for his life
Inspiring and incredible persona!! enough respect Martin luther king jr-- from Zimbabwe
Dr King, thank you for your life, dedication and service to America. I love you Dr King and I give you and Coretta and zillion thank you.
Holy cow, 4 comments in a row! Lmao
A great man, immensely learned in philosophy, history, theology, linguistics, etc. I can listen to him forever.
the thought of this man never existing is bone chilling. I thank Dr. Martin Luther King for what he did, along with all those beside him. let us not forget that he was not alone. and I assure that he rather not be recognized all himself. God bless his soul for he did not only help my fellow black brothers l but my people too, the Hispanics. and many more races I am sure. I love this man, and I am not ashamed to say it. I can listen to him preach all day. we need more people like him today. may God hear me, and deliver us from evil, for dark times are coming and we need real heroes. not like the actor and fantasy factors one sees on the cubed frames on walls and devices.
oh! Sir Dr. Martin Luther King where art thou?
I hope the time to return Jesús is now.
Dr. King an instrument of God.Sweet LORD,please send us a leader for this genration,we need deliverance. Amen
I just cried from that speech, since this is 2021, while hearing Dr King's words compared to today
My God, My God.... The spirit of the Lord is here.