OK MLK Jr had a great speech about America and how we dont rule the rule

[southernleftylady]

anyone know where i can find this quote from?? it is so perfect for today and Ive been goggling my little heart out.. Tia! :)

[Lancer]

1. I spent about 40 minutes

trying to help you out here, and I too am stumped.

(Although 40 minutes reading Dr. King is always time well spent.)

That Stanford website devoted to MLK is very well done. Sorry I didn't save the link.

[slojim240]

2. Here's one link. digging for others

http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe.jsp?query=mlk+speeches&page=1&offset=0&result_url=redir%3Fsrc%3Dwebsearch%26requestId%3Dc67f48bbb29193ef%26clickedItemRank%3D6%26userQuery%3Dmlk%2Bspeeches%26clickedItemURN%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.creighton.edu%252Fmlk%252Fspeeches.htm%26invocationType%3D-%26fromPage%3DNSCPToolbarNS%26amp%3BampTest%3D1&remove_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.creighton.edu%2Fmlk%2Fspeeches.htm

BTW, you know it wasn't until MLK began to speak out against the Viet Nam war that his detractors became vicious and then eventully killed him.

[H2O Man]

5. "A Time to Break Silence"

was the address MLK gave one year to the day before he was killed. It was not the first time he spoke against the Vietnam war. But it was the time he connected it with Civil Rights in a way that attacked the policies of LBJ.

The power elite didn't care about King trying to integrate public diners and toilets. They do not use these places. But when MLK spoke about the need to change the economic structure of America by attacking the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism, he was considered too great a threat to national security.

His "I Have a Dream" and the "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speeches are perhaps more famous. But " A Time to Break Silence" is the most important message that this prophet ever delivered.

[slojim240]

3. An excerpt from an MLK speech that makes me really want to shake

the DUers.

"There is an answer to that myth. It is that time is neutral. It can be used wither constructively or destructively. And I am sorry to say this morning that I am absolutely convinced that the forces of ill will in our nation, the extreme rightists of our nation—the people on the wrong side—have used time much more effectively than the forces of goodwill. And it may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time."

http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe.jsp?query=mlk+speeches+text&page=1&offset=0&result_url=redir%3Fsrc%3Dwebsearch%26requestId%3D4d602596a1475c3d%26clickedItemRank%3D4%26userQuery%3Dmlk%2Bspeeches%2Btext%26clickedItemURN%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.stanford.edu%252Fgroup%252FKing%252Fpublications%252FspeechesFrame.htm%26invocationType%3D-%26fromPage%3DNSCPToolbarNS%26amp%3BampTest%3D1&remove_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stanford.edu%2Fgroup%2FKing%2Fpublications%2FspeechesFrame.htm

[slojim240]

4. King on "education." Wow. He was a true profit.

<snip>

"Education must also train one for quick, resolute and effective thinking. To think incisively and to think for one's self is very difficult. We are prone to let our mental life become invaded by legions of half truths, prejudices, and propaganda. At this point, I often wonder whether or not education is fulfilling its purpose. A great majority of the so-called educated people do not think logically and scientifically. Even the press, the classroom, the platform, and the pulpit in many instances do not give us objective and unbiased truths. To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction."

The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals."

http://www.creighton.edu/mlk/speech_education.htm

[southernleftylady]

6. thanks for all the replys and link :) nt