Martin Luther King lived for just over 39 years.
He traveled over six million miles, spoke on over 2500 occasions, became an icon for civil rights, was Time magazine’s Man of the Year at age 35, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize.
When you have some time (outside the money hours or during a well-earned break), enjoy his “I Have a Dream” speech below (really starts going around 12:20), read his Nobel Prize acceptance, or listen to this quick audio clip from his Drum Major Instinct sermon for a little inspiration (full text of the speech).
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Elizabeth says:
How is this message not about race? MLK talks about the Emancipation Proclomation issued by Abe Lincoln which highlighted freedom of all slaves within any state that did not submit to Union control. He dreams that his children will be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. While you took his “message” and turned into a message relatable to you and what’s important to you, MLK was completely talking about race and equality amongst people of all color.
18 January 2011
Everson Chadwick Singleton says:
Never really listened fully to this. This message was not about race it was about delivering a message.. Same messages were all fighting for now. Today the fight is against banks, promissory notes, bad debt our country, red white and blue has delivered to us mislead by poor business tactics, big companies looking only for there bale out, politicians and corporate gurus seeking there own dream and forgetting about ours. We all need to take back our country, JUSTICE is still needed the new poor and impoverished does not have just one color it is multicolored, multi-diverse, just like that red whit and blue. We need truths about everything. Jobs banks companies goverment, etc.. The new dream is the same american dream. When will the injustice against all those who are trying now to hold on to a dream. But a dream that now is disolving in our own hands… The recession.
15 December 2010