I have to say listening to this is an extremely harrowing and chilling experience. When he says "god told me to tell you this morning" shivers go down my spine. He won in the end, put he paid a high price with his own life. People like him only come along once in a lifetime. Speaking the truth often makes people scared and upset, its sometimes the hardest thing to do. But in the end you have to do the right thing, it takes a lot of courage though. Something MLK had in bucket loads.
Im asian and I believed growing up that my family was a victim of communist oppression. As time passes and history revealed I find that my family is responsible for the oppression of the poor
Yes but in the eyes of policy makers it is manly to fight in wars and stuff, and like america is super rich they can spend this money easy, 90-95% of the homeless and poor people within the united states will die will networths exceeding millions of dollars, because america is the land of opportunity, so it will all work out.
@hugegiantfrogs A small point of semantics. He dared to raise his head above the parapets (with a conscious vision of a better society) and did not shrink from the media slings and arrows of either his targets or his altermate-minded fellow strugglers. He gave his life for a good cause.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what you can do for all mankind.
Ah ain't never seen no dwarf giant frogs, by the way.
@hugegiantfrogs Pay attention to the things he said before he was killed. He knew he was going to be killed for what he said & did but he continued his work anyway,stood tall & died on his feet like a man as opposed to running & hiding.
Yeah I never believed in lambs and lions together (nor in god for that matter) I believe in the lamb learning how to roar but still this man was awesome, he's better off dead anyways: he wouldn't like to see that all the hope that rose in those years is pretty much dead now.
For the Pentagon to hijack this peace-loving man's legacy is not only an abhorrent act, but it is despicable on their part. With Dr. King's legacy as a peace loving man known, his family should sue the government for stealing their father's image. He would not stand for his image and likeness being used to justify war and its aftermath.
Why do people forget that most of the people are fighting for themselves and not their governmental institution. Afghanistan like Vietnam is unconquerable. The revolution must come from inside and not from a foreign force.
This brought back a lot of bitter-sweet memories. Many of the signs held by protesters were about causes other than the war or civil rights. One was even about the relatively obscure & short-lived issue of Ricardo Chávez-Ortiz.
It's a shame Dr. King died so early, and suffered so much in the struggle for justice and freedom...
It was a loss not only for the people of America, but the whole world...
Yet, the struggle continues ! As Dr. King would agree, the really important people are those who never get mentioned...While Dr. King acted as the figure of a mass movement for justice, it was the countless millions bravely organizing, demonstrating, and showing solidarity behind him that ultimately shook the system.
after this speech however... the powerful have launched a successful counter strike since the 70's, now in the wake of this counter movement... this speech sounds like its from Mars.
we need to organize again... MLK was held up on the backs of unknown folks, who worked hard to raise awareness, to the point where MLK could be presented in the mainstream
"The chain reaction of evil--wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.~
The anti-war, poverty fighting, revolutionary MLK has been whitewashed into a "civil rights leader" without politics or views on Vietnam.
In this speech, MLK links his views on poverty and discrimination to the wars abroad to devastating effect. How can you spend billions of dollars to bomb foreign people thousands of millions away but how can you not spend money to help your OWN people??
War is inseparable from domination, poverty and abuse, as MLK so clearly spoke.
If you combine Liberals with Libertarians (both war opponents in theory) you have, for the first time in America a true Anti-war majority, this only works if libertarians start leaving the republican party and voting in our primaries to get rid of tools like Obama who pervert the name of the ideology.
<3 This resonates so much it makes me sad. “Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others, and nothing to learn from them is not just” .
How can a nation celebrate this man Martin Luther King and even create a holiday to memorialize him and still continue to act the way we do? We have a type of national psychosis where we profess to do one thing and do the opposite and then delude ourselves into believing we act as we profess. Our nation has a terminal illness of its Soul. A complete national rebirth is the only thing that will save US.
Notice that on MLK day, no one in the media talks about his anti-war and political views?
MLK not only challenged the racial inequalities, but the structural and economic inequalities that continue to keep the US in a state of barbarism.
Obama uses phrases like "arc of the universe bends towards justice" yet is bending over backwards to sell out poor Americans to J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs etc. while EXPANDING war abroad.
@micahgee : People are very good at ignoring the inconvenient Truth and creating their own comfortable version. An example is all these Bible people out there talking about WWJD and all that nonsense completely ignore the uncomfortable teaching about money and caring for the poor and peace and humility.
When people like this show courage and high morality, enough so that he was willing to speak out against an injustice that most men during that time and now haven't and don't do so, "They Kill Them".
This is why I don't respect Al Sharpton, nor Jesse Jackson. They don't have an inch of MLK in them, as well as his own kids I might add other than DNA.
We have token leaders now, and we have been totally duped. You have to fly under the radar to pass out truth without assassination these days.
@sl2mmer : Our nation worships wealth and power and men like President Obama who pander to those forces. People of character and morality will never get the attention of the media other than to destroy them.
I wish they would show THIS speech more often for Martin Luther King Day, but of course, all the Mainstream media can come up with is to show the "I Have a Dream Speech" on a loop. It's a beautiful speech, but it does an injustice to a man whose interests went beyond domestic or racial issues.
@OmarAlQaseer Yes. I think "Dream,"was made 5 yrs beforee his murder. The 60's was a time of huge personal growth; it wasn't just "see the light" and then freeze in that position, it waqs more light, then more light, then more light. Constantly growing in understanding. Media/sachools/fake leaders would have us believe MLK "had a dream" and then was killed, becauseif we know his later work,we would know why they killed him and therefore who had it done..
Not much has changed since 44 years ago, infact it has gotten worst on many aspects! The propaganda machine become so much more sophisticated nowadays, more sheeples have been institutionalised and doctrinised without even knowing about it. Others are just given up the struggles, "if you can't beat them, join them" attitude. Are there hope for humanity and mankind!?
This beautiful, courageous man Martin Luther King, makes one feel good to be alive__ happy to be a human being. This sermon is without a doubt, the most important, truthful and eloquent speech delivered in U. S. history . An honest man speaking from his heart, with no personal agenda. no fear, no calculation. His call for justice, intelligence and faith, brought to that historical moment a strength that will survive ignorance, the politics of money and war and trancend the ages. Turn off your TV
@Steadno Malcom preached self defense, that if attacked, defend your self by any means necessary. I don't know if you can call that a war philosophy. King preached non violence, that if attacked, do nothing but march and sing.
@Steadno You don't know anything about Malcolm X do you? I get it. The history books tell you is preached violence and died violently, right? The only thing that differed between Dr. King and Malcolm X in the beginning was tactics. Malcolm was not a violent man. He and Dr. King were converging on a range of issues toward the end of their lives. Read his autobiography and listen to his speeches. You've been bamboozled with falsehoods about the man.
@SandCmpbll malcolm said that 'we are non violent with those who are non violent with us.' you must understand that without him king wouldnt have had the power he had. the u.s. government had to pick from two ideals. they chose king cause he was for non violence at all cost.
@SandCmpbll King and Malcolm X only met once, and they couldn't be more different. Malcolm X was a despicable racist who hung out with sociopaths and thugs, who after he did change his opinions on race, he got killed for it.
@ProgressiveAudio I see you have gone as far as you wanted to go understanding who Malcom was, and why Malcom came to be the man he was and what he meant during the civil rights movement. And you obviously don't know King either, the I Have A Dream Speech was not his last speech. The final speech he wrote was found after he was killed, it was titled "Why America can go to Hell."
@Blac13 Pretty much everything Malcolm X stood for he renounced and got killed for it, shows the destructive path he walked. But even then he was still a pretty reprehensible person who only hurt the image of the civil rights movement. There's a reason he's barely even mentioned now, he had a small impact, and it was bad.
@ProgressiveAudio You say because of the path he walked was the reason for him being killed in regards to Malcom X. King was also murdered as we all know, much in the same fashion. The were killed because they dared to challenge the powers that be. Small impact according to who, bad according to who, who's opinion are we really taking into consideration here. Malcom's attitude toward western European power structure was no different than say Washington toward the British. Am I wrong?
@Blac13 "King was also murdered as we all know," Not by his former friends and associates. Malcolm X was duped into a crazy ass religion (the mormonism of Islam essentially) run by sociopaths and racist, and so when he left, he got killed by them. Also notice he still was a muslim, which is pretty fruity and prone to kill dissents already.
@ProgressiveAudio He was done in by black muslim's, but he still died fighting for the rights of blacks. You can't deny that no matter how much you dont like the manner in which he was doing it. An American government filled with, like you called Islam, a bunch of sociopaths and racist.
@ProgressiveAudio You ever read Malclom X's book !! he knew that there was a conspracy to kill ! and the things that were being done ! he said "was above what the nation of islam could" !!
@Blac13 "The were killed because they dared to challenge the powers that be." Nope, Malcolm X was killed for leaving his crazy ass cult. "Small impact according to who" History. Even if you have no interest in the era and are not american, you know MLK. How many people outside black nationalist circles in garages know who Malcolm X is? Maybe some white supremacist who use him as examples for their own hatred.
@ProgressiveAudio The Autobiography of Malcolm X has been a consistent best-seller since its 1965 publication. According to The New York Times, the paperback edition sold 400,000 copies in 1967 and 800,00 copies the following year. The New York Times reported that 6 million copies of the book had been sold by 1977. The book returned to the best-seller list in the 1990s, helped in part by the publicity surrounding Spike Lee's film Malcolm X Between 82 and 92, sales of the book climbed 300%.
@Blac13 Uh..that might go somewhere if you didn't know that selling a few thousand copies can put you on the New York Times Bestseller list. Example: The Alphabet of Manliness. Don't get me wrong, great book, probably read more than Malcolm X.
@Blac13 "Spike Lee's films" Yeah because his films are right up there with James Cameron and Steven Spielberg in impact and popularity. Most people I talked to who saw that film didn't even know it was based on a real person XD. "He was done in by black muslim's, but he still died fighting for the rights of blacks. " Nope he died promoting racism and racial hatred and some batshit crazy religion. "An American government" which didn't kill him.
@Blac13 "Malcom's attitude toward western European power structure was no different than say Washington toward the British. Am I wrong? " I have no idea what that's supposed to mean. Malcolm X wasn't in Europe.
@Blac13 I don't remember ever saying it was his last speech. All I said was he met Malcolm X once, which is true. Malcolm X constantly derided Martin Luther King Jr, calling him a stooge for white people and calling the civil rights movement and poor peoples campaigns full of shit. They couldn't have been more opposite and they never worked together.
Love to humanity, blacks and whites and all men are still not free. Though we have the illusion of choice and freedom, we are still bound. Freedom, Liberty, Peace, Love, Justice.
Jeremiah Wright said some of the same things MLK said back in 2008, and the country persecuted him. point in check. No one in America wants to hear the truth. What we will do as a nation if we continue to consent to such horrible foreign policies by way of silence?
Just the same it's wrong when people tell you that human rights only apply to those on this American Rock. And even now it's slipping away from those that actually live on this rock.
@Wishingstarification actually i would rather watch game than this, only because i don't want to see any sad on sunday. this stuff is depressing to watch
He is a wonderful man tho, wish he was still around :) , along with JFK and others.
this is why he was assassinated. for speaking the truth.
hobieslug45 4 months ago
I have to say listening to this is an extremely harrowing and chilling experience. When he says "god told me to tell you this morning" shivers go down my spine. He won in the end, put he paid a high price with his own life. People like him only come along once in a lifetime. Speaking the truth often makes people scared and upset, its sometimes the hardest thing to do. But in the end you have to do the right thing, it takes a lot of courage though. Something MLK had in bucket loads.
haasxaar 5 months ago
Truth.
BillMFMurray 6 months ago
Im asian and I believed growing up that my family was a victim of communist oppression. As time passes and history revealed I find that my family is responsible for the oppression of the poor
HillTribeman 7 months ago 2
Where have men like these gone... Lord where have they gone.
2xtream 8 months ago
@2xtream I believe men like this exist today but many are afraid to sound their voice.
205whiteboy 6 days ago
This is what Dr. King was REALLY about, but barely anybody knows this.
SolMerc 9 months ago
I love you always Dr. King!
GirlonFilm1969 10 months ago
HE'S AN AMAZING MAN...AND HIS SPIRIT LIVES ON...X
gwhtf4 11 months ago
This one of the most powerful sermons of Dr. King. And every word he preached is truth.
redbonegal 1 year ago 2
to say Martin Luther King was great man would be an understatement
Streetslogic 1 year ago 3
Yes but in the eyes of policy makers it is manly to fight in wars and stuff, and like america is super rich they can spend this money easy, 90-95% of the homeless and poor people within the united states will die will networths exceeding millions of dollars, because america is the land of opportunity, so it will all work out.
yuri35435 1 year ago
MLK sure liked the white women
hanksnow82 1 year ago
dr king was a great and wise man!
sevenender 1 year ago
MLK = Hero who gave his life for his country.
angelicsoulz 1 year ago
@angelicsoulz He didn't give his life, his life was stolen from him. Get it straight.
hugegiantfrogs 1 year ago
@hugegiantfrogs A small point of semantics. He dared to raise his head above the parapets (with a conscious vision of a better society) and did not shrink from the media slings and arrows of either his targets or his altermate-minded fellow strugglers. He gave his life for a good cause.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what you can do for all mankind.
Ah ain't never seen no dwarf giant frogs, by the way.
CharlieOchs 1 year ago
@hugegiantfrogs Pay attention to the things he said before he was killed. He knew he was going to be killed for what he said & did but he continued his work anyway,stood tall & died on his feet like a man as opposed to running & hiding.
angelicsoulz 1 year ago 2
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angelicsoulz 1 year ago
Yeah I never believed in lambs and lions together (nor in god for that matter) I believe in the lamb learning how to roar but still this man was awesome, he's better off dead anyways: he wouldn't like to see that all the hope that rose in those years is pretty much dead now.
sinekonata 1 year ago
For the Pentagon to hijack this peace-loving man's legacy is not only an abhorrent act, but it is despicable on their part. With Dr. King's legacy as a peace loving man known, his family should sue the government for stealing their father's image. He would not stand for his image and likeness being used to justify war and its aftermath.
journeyer58 1 year ago 3
Why do people forget that most of the people are fighting for themselves and not their governmental institution. Afghanistan like Vietnam is unconquerable. The revolution must come from inside and not from a foreign force.
Apocalypse487 1 year ago
@uatwmf apparently not. somehow humans dont learn anything from history. War doesnt change anything.
Apocalypse487 1 year ago
You're damn right, theres something wrong with the press. SUPPORT WIKILEAKS!
bucketonamonkeyshead 1 year ago
This brought back a lot of bitter-sweet memories. Many of the signs held by protesters were about causes other than the war or civil rights. One was even about the relatively obscure & short-lived issue of Ricardo Chávez-Ortiz.
neltiliztlamani 1 year ago
facebooked the link!
NewEraRevolution 1 year ago
facebooked the link!
NewEraRevolution 1 year ago
Viva La Revolución
HigherPlanes 1 year ago
It's a shame Dr. King died so early, and suffered so much in the struggle for justice and freedom...
It was a loss not only for the people of America, but the whole world...
Yet, the struggle continues ! As Dr. King would agree, the really important people are those who never get mentioned...While Dr. King acted as the figure of a mass movement for justice, it was the countless millions bravely organizing, demonstrating, and showing solidarity behind him that ultimately shook the system.
wnxsilence 1 year ago
Outstanding rationale.
vinnyhoags 1 year ago
Long live the king.
dchen345 1 year ago 4
an editing suggestion: lose the 'we shall overcome' at the end, and the closing REAL News tag.
originaljonesdotinfo 1 year ago
Best speech he ever did.
captcrais101 1 year ago 2
that was beautiful, and moving
marpoq 1 year ago 2
simple truth, eloquently said:
after this speech however... the powerful have launched a successful counter strike since the 70's, now in the wake of this counter movement... this speech sounds like its from Mars.
we need to organize again... MLK was held up on the backs of unknown folks, who worked hard to raise awareness, to the point where MLK could be presented in the mainstream
Zoidborg1 1 year ago
And who said that times have changed?
HKNajjar 1 year ago
Speech was given on April 4 1967, NOT April 30th.
zhuxiu 1 year ago
@zhuxiu Yes, and it was at the Riverside Church, in Harlem, NYC, not the Ebenezer Baptist Church, which was in Alabama
neltiliztlamani 1 year ago
Great speech
TomBarry192I 1 year ago
"The chain reaction of evil--wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.~
Artist1974CH 1 year ago
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Artist1974CH 1 year ago
I will NEVER forget Martin Luther King Jr.
And I will ALWAYS remember, carry on and share his message.
TheThriftShopSampler 1 year ago
It's amazing how densely profound that speech was... it's also amazing how it applies so precisely to here and now.
sandite26 1 year ago
The anti-war, poverty fighting, revolutionary MLK has been whitewashed into a "civil rights leader" without politics or views on Vietnam.
In this speech, MLK links his views on poverty and discrimination to the wars abroad to devastating effect. How can you spend billions of dollars to bomb foreign people thousands of millions away but how can you not spend money to help your OWN people??
War is inseparable from domination, poverty and abuse, as MLK so clearly spoke.
micahgee 1 year ago
END THE WARS!
micahgee 1 year ago 3
If you combine Liberals with Libertarians (both war opponents in theory) you have, for the first time in America a true Anti-war majority, this only works if libertarians start leaving the republican party and voting in our primaries to get rid of tools like Obama who pervert the name of the ideology.
furseiseki 1 year ago
<3 This resonates so much it makes me sad. “Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others, and nothing to learn from them is not just” .
coolsteven2 1 year ago
Powerful thoughts and wise words are timeless, this speech by MKL proves that! Mesmerizing!!
AnelyMG 1 year ago
This speech is great but as the description states, sections were cut. Those sections make this speech even stronger.
saadasim 1 year ago
The boomerang has made 90% of it's travel, I'd say...
r0ll0t0masi 1 year ago 2
How can a nation celebrate this man Martin Luther King and even create a holiday to memorialize him and still continue to act the way we do? We have a type of national psychosis where we profess to do one thing and do the opposite and then delude ourselves into believing we act as we profess. Our nation has a terminal illness of its Soul. A complete national rebirth is the only thing that will save US.
klard 1 year ago 3
Notice that on MLK day, no one in the media talks about his anti-war and political views?
MLK not only challenged the racial inequalities, but the structural and economic inequalities that continue to keep the US in a state of barbarism.
Obama uses phrases like "arc of the universe bends towards justice" yet is bending over backwards to sell out poor Americans to J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs etc. while EXPANDING war abroad.
MLK would be disgusted by Obama IMHO
micahgee 1 year ago 13
@micahgee "Notice that on MLK day, no one in the media talks about his anti-war and political views?"
The only thing that would make CNN upset if a nuke went off is if they didn't catch the mushroom cloud from twenty five different angles.
SpitfireOFatj 1 year ago 3
@micahgee : People are very good at ignoring the inconvenient Truth and creating their own comfortable version. An example is all these Bible people out there talking about WWJD and all that nonsense completely ignore the uncomfortable teaching about money and caring for the poor and peace and humility.
klard 1 year ago
@micahgee Obama has fought militarism, economic exploitation and racism.
He is shrinking the military, fighting exploitation and sluggish development of the big, established companies.
I can't say about racism though, but I'm sure he opposes it at least :s
JanZamani 1 month ago
MLK was killed.
Malcolm X was killed.
Gandhi was killed.
Rabin was killed.
When can we stop killing people who are trying to tell us the error of our ways?
saadasim 1 year ago 36
now that's what I call power!
JeroenUyttendaele 1 year ago
When people like this show courage and high morality, enough so that he was willing to speak out against an injustice that most men during that time and now haven't and don't do so, "They Kill Them".
This is why I don't respect Al Sharpton, nor Jesse Jackson. They don't have an inch of MLK in them, as well as his own kids I might add other than DNA.
We have token leaders now, and we have been totally duped. You have to fly under the radar to pass out truth without assassination these days.
genefire 1 year ago
When old speeches fit seamlessly into our own times - thats how you know history is manipulated into repeating itself
uwmbigb 1 year ago
If you like have a moment /user/AlexRoody
Peace
ThinkForOneself 1 year ago
This speech makes me deeply sad, and each time I hear it I mourn for a society that did not listen to messengers like King when they were around.
BroAdsoTube 1 year ago 2
How prophetic that the words are still applicable today...
sharron1128 1 year ago
we need a new King!
sl2mmer 1 year ago
@sl2mmer : Our nation worships wealth and power and men like President Obama who pander to those forces. People of character and morality will never get the attention of the media other than to destroy them.
klard 1 year ago 3
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@klard what about Julian Assange? :)
sl2mmer 1 year ago
What a speaker! Inspirational!
MrDarkbloom 1 year ago
thank you
kurydebarcelona 1 year ago
@uatwmf
King vs Obama on Gaza
watch?v=L11mtJ9zEo8
TheMatrixBreaker 1 year ago
just finished watching the video great stuff. pressed the like button and wasnt surprised to find no thumbs down
SnoutDonuts 1 year ago
loving the real news!
mystico09 1 year ago
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I wish black people would listen to MLK
btigtime2 1 year ago
I wish they would show THIS speech more often for Martin Luther King Day, but of course, all the Mainstream media can come up with is to show the "I Have a Dream Speech" on a loop. It's a beautiful speech, but it does an injustice to a man whose interests went beyond domestic or racial issues.
OmarAlQaseer 1 year ago 4
@OmarAlQaseer Yes. I think "Dream,"was made 5 yrs beforee his murder. The 60's was a time of huge personal growth; it wasn't just "see the light" and then freeze in that position, it waqs more light, then more light, then more light. Constantly growing in understanding. Media/sachools/fake leaders would have us believe MLK "had a dream" and then was killed, becauseif we know his later work,we would know why they killed him and therefore who had it done..
grandmachristine42 1 year ago
@uatwmf back then, there was only one...
PlateauEast 1 year ago
Not much has changed since 44 years ago, infact it has gotten worst on many aspects! The propaganda machine become so much more sophisticated nowadays, more sheeples have been institutionalised and doctrinised without even knowing about it. Others are just given up the struggles, "if you can't beat them, join them" attitude. Are there hope for humanity and mankind!?
lostpebble 1 year ago 2
"There comes a time when silence is betrayal!"
blew my mind.
Ex0dus111 1 year ago 4
Change, yes we can? hmm it seems the more things change the more they stay the same.
SuperQUL 1 year ago 2
I wish black people were still like this man... :(
9436oelable 1 year ago
@9436oelable So white people are all right ,then?
MrMemag 1 year ago
@9436oelable Take heart, I know many who still share his deep convictions.
SuperQUL 1 year ago 2
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friendsofbrookpark 1 year ago
@9436oelable and I wish you were like this man!
cheddyrod 1 year ago
Wow powerful I will admit I have not heard many speeches from this man but after that I wish he was alive today
SMASHER1099 1 year ago 2
Is it just me or is it really hard to listen to this guy? Why can't he just talk normally? Great stuff though. Just difficult to concentrate.
akrulla 1 year ago
@akrulla too bad you have obama-care and not decent medical care and then you would be able to have your ears treated.
cheddyrod 1 year ago
@cheddyrod lol. Although I am English so I have no excuses. :)
akrulla 1 year ago
@akrulla Since you are English (British?) that is an acceptable excuse. :P
cheddyrod 1 year ago
@akrulla Its just you.
grandmachristine42 1 year ago
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thumbs up for truth!!!
lilshook1 1 year ago 4
arizona dont celebrate MLK
solimiansky 1 year ago
This beautiful, courageous man Martin Luther King, makes one feel good to be alive__ happy to be a human being. This sermon is without a doubt, the most important, truthful and eloquent speech delivered in U. S. history . An honest man speaking from his heart, with no personal agenda. no fear, no calculation. His call for justice, intelligence and faith, brought to that historical moment a strength that will survive ignorance, the politics of money and war and trancend the ages. Turn off your TV
cheouno 1 year ago 3
Thank you very much for posting this.
Please watch this version too :
King vs Obama on Gaza
watch?v=L11mtJ9zEo8
TheMatrixBreaker 1 year ago
After listening to MLK's speeches
I read from his autobiography
as I read with ease (for once-usually I have a very difficult time concentrating)
I can hear his voice in my mind with every sentence
like I'm listening to an audiobook that he recorded
quite a good voice to get stuck in your head Id say!
catgumart 1 year ago 2
he was a great man BUT then people had two choices then...mlk and peace OR malcolm x and war
Steadno 1 year ago
@Steadno Malcom preached self defense, that if attacked, defend your self by any means necessary. I don't know if you can call that a war philosophy. King preached non violence, that if attacked, do nothing but march and sing.
Blac13 1 year ago
@Blac13 i was talking about blacks rising up with guns under malcolm instead of signs under mlk
Steadno 1 year ago
@Steadno You don't know anything about Malcolm X do you? I get it. The history books tell you is preached violence and died violently, right? The only thing that differed between Dr. King and Malcolm X in the beginning was tactics. Malcolm was not a violent man. He and Dr. King were converging on a range of issues toward the end of their lives. Read his autobiography and listen to his speeches. You've been bamboozled with falsehoods about the man.
SandCmpbll 1 year ago 14
@SandCmpbll malcolm said that 'we are non violent with those who are non violent with us.' you must understand that without him king wouldnt have had the power he had. the u.s. government had to pick from two ideals. they chose king cause he was for non violence at all cost.
HiddenBlackHistory 1 year ago
@SandCmpbll King and Malcolm X only met once, and they couldn't be more different. Malcolm X was a despicable racist who hung out with sociopaths and thugs, who after he did change his opinions on race, he got killed for it.
ProgressiveAudio 1 year ago
@ProgressiveAudio I see you have gone as far as you wanted to go understanding who Malcom was, and why Malcom came to be the man he was and what he meant during the civil rights movement. And you obviously don't know King either, the I Have A Dream Speech was not his last speech. The final speech he wrote was found after he was killed, it was titled "Why America can go to Hell."
Blac13 1 year ago
@Blac13 Pretty much everything Malcolm X stood for he renounced and got killed for it, shows the destructive path he walked. But even then he was still a pretty reprehensible person who only hurt the image of the civil rights movement. There's a reason he's barely even mentioned now, he had a small impact, and it was bad.
ProgressiveAudio 1 year ago
@ProgressiveAudio You say because of the path he walked was the reason for him being killed in regards to Malcom X. King was also murdered as we all know, much in the same fashion. The were killed because they dared to challenge the powers that be. Small impact according to who, bad according to who, who's opinion are we really taking into consideration here. Malcom's attitude toward western European power structure was no different than say Washington toward the British. Am I wrong?
Blac13 1 year ago
@Blac13 "King was also murdered as we all know," Not by his former friends and associates. Malcolm X was duped into a crazy ass religion (the mormonism of Islam essentially) run by sociopaths and racist, and so when he left, he got killed by them. Also notice he still was a muslim, which is pretty fruity and prone to kill dissents already.
ProgressiveAudio 1 year ago
@ProgressiveAudio He was done in by black muslim's, but he still died fighting for the rights of blacks. You can't deny that no matter how much you dont like the manner in which he was doing it. An American government filled with, like you called Islam, a bunch of sociopaths and racist.
Blac13 1 year ago
@ProgressiveAudio You ever read Malclom X's book !! he knew that there was a conspracy to kill ! and the things that were being done ! he said "was above what the nation of islam could" !!
buheyra1212 1 year ago
@Blac13 "The were killed because they dared to challenge the powers that be." Nope, Malcolm X was killed for leaving his crazy ass cult. "Small impact according to who" History. Even if you have no interest in the era and are not american, you know MLK. How many people outside black nationalist circles in garages know who Malcolm X is? Maybe some white supremacist who use him as examples for their own hatred.
ProgressiveAudio 1 year ago
@ProgressiveAudio The Autobiography of Malcolm X has been a consistent best-seller since its 1965 publication. According to The New York Times, the paperback edition sold 400,000 copies in 1967 and 800,00 copies the following year. The New York Times reported that 6 million copies of the book had been sold by 1977. The book returned to the best-seller list in the 1990s, helped in part by the publicity surrounding Spike Lee's film Malcolm X Between 82 and 92, sales of the book climbed 300%.
Blac13 1 year ago
@Blac13 Uh..that might go somewhere if you didn't know that selling a few thousand copies can put you on the New York Times Bestseller list. Example: The Alphabet of Manliness. Don't get me wrong, great book, probably read more than Malcolm X.
ProgressiveAudio 1 year ago
@Blac13 "Spike Lee's films" Yeah because his films are right up there with James Cameron and Steven Spielberg in impact and popularity. Most people I talked to who saw that film didn't even know it was based on a real person XD. "He was done in by black muslim's, but he still died fighting for the rights of blacks. " Nope he died promoting racism and racial hatred and some batshit crazy religion. "An American government" which didn't kill him.
ProgressiveAudio 1 year ago
@ProgressiveAudio People know who Malcom X was, maybe not in your circles but the world knows who he was.
Blac13 1 year ago
@Blac13 Among retard fruitcake black nationalist I'm sure.
ProgressiveAudio 1 year ago
@Blac13 "Malcom's attitude toward western European power structure was no different than say Washington toward the British. Am I wrong? " I have no idea what that's supposed to mean. Malcolm X wasn't in Europe.
ProgressiveAudio 1 year ago
@Blac13 I don't remember ever saying it was his last speech. All I said was he met Malcolm X once, which is true. Malcolm X constantly derided Martin Luther King Jr, calling him a stooge for white people and calling the civil rights movement and poor peoples campaigns full of shit. They couldn't have been more opposite and they never worked together.
ProgressiveAudio 1 year ago
Love to humanity, blacks and whites and all men are still not free. Though we have the illusion of choice and freedom, we are still bound. Freedom, Liberty, Peace, Love, Justice.
GrizzlyFist 1 year ago
We need a new MLK.
Samulisami 1 year ago
@Samulisami
Jeremiah Wright said some of the same things MLK said back in 2008, and the country persecuted him. point in check. No one in America wants to hear the truth. What we will do as a nation if we continue to consent to such horrible foreign policies by way of silence?
lordblazer 1 year ago 14
@lordblazer : MLK is much more eloquent than Jeremiah Wright...
lilhotboy247 1 year ago
Great words, great man, very emotional and poetic! Truthful and relevant even now in our turbulent times. Brought tears to my eyes.
srs7734 1 year ago 43
@srs7734 Obama should listen to this and then replay all his broken promises.
jaba987 1 year ago
@srs7734 Oh, so he had sexual affairs on his wife. He was a FREEMASON! He was a fake!
mattandpatti222 1 year ago
Just the same it's wrong when people tell you that human rights only apply to those on this American Rock. And even now it's slipping away from those that actually live on this rock.
Private Bradly Manning, no trial given.
The patriot act.
Torture
mrx0066600 1 year ago 6
This very well applies to today. Just replace Vietnam with Iraq & Afghanistan.
InfluencingYou 1 year ago 3
This video is much more important than sunday night football.
Wishingstarification 1 year ago 4
@Wishingstarification actually i would rather watch game than this, only because i don't want to see any sad on sunday. this stuff is depressing to watch
He is a wonderful man tho, wish he was still around :) , along with JFK and others.
GatewayDXSeries 1 year ago
martinlutherkingorg is a good site to learn the truth about this person
ExposeZionistCrimes 1 year ago
Thank you so much for this, was to perfect.
Nolen87 1 year ago 3