Happy Monday FaceBooties!! Heard Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s , Ive Been to the Mountaintop speech from 1968 the other day on the radio and thought WOW...he could give that speech today and it would be just as relevant!! What follows are excerpts from that speech …As we continue to exercise our right to peaceful assembly and protest as it concerns the legally sanctioned murder of our young black men and women and are met with anger, hatred and violence let these profound words resonate in your heart and mind …. “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....... Maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they hadnt 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.” “Now the other thing well 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” (Even then African-American’s collective economic power was formidable) “We dont have to argue with anybody. We dont have to curse and go around acting bad with our words. We dont need any bricks and bottles. We dont 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 youre not treating his children right. And weve come by here to ask you to make the first item on your agenda fair treatment, where Gods 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. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ~John F. Kennedy~ youtu.be/Oehry1JC9Rk
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 18:12:47 +0000
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