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| 24 May 2013 08:40 PM |
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.
But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.
In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Michael Ochs Archives/Alex Wong/Getty Images The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., left, speaks... View Full Size Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial: 1 Year Later Watch Video Your 3 Words: Rev Martin Luther King Jr. Edition Watch Video MLK Jr. Memorial Dedicated Watch Video It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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| 24 May 2013 08:43 PM |
In conclusion I think to fix the clan world we need to -
our score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. |
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| 24 May 2013 08:45 PM |
(Never say never) See I never thought that I could walk through fire I never thought that I could take the burn I never had the strength to take it higher Until I reached the point of no return
And there's just no turning back When your heart's under attack Gonna give everything I have It's my destiny
I will never say never! (I will fight) I will fight till forever! (make it right) Whenever you knock me down I will not stay on the ground Pick it up Pick it up Pick it up Pick it up up up And never say never
Ne-Never say never(Never) Ne-Never say never(Never) Ne-Never say never(Never) I never thought that I could feel this power I never thought that I could feel this free I'm strong enough to climb the highest tower And I'm fast enough to run across the sea
And there's just no turning back When your heart's under attack Gonna give everything I have 'cause this is my destiny
I will never say never! (I will fight) I will fight till forever! (make it right) Whenever you knock me down I will not stay on the ground Pick it up Pick it up Pick it up Pick it up, up, up And never say never
Here we go! Guess who? JSmith and JB! I gotcha lil bro I can handle him Hold up, aight? I can handle him
Now he's bigger than me Taller than me And he's older than me And stronger than me And his arms a little bit longer than me But he ain't on a JB song with me!
I be trying a chill They be trying to sour the thrill No pun intended, was raised by the power of Will
Like Luke with the force, when push comes to shove Like Kobe in the 4th, ice water with blood
I gotta be the best, and yes We're the flyest Like David and Goliath I conquered the giant So now I got the world in my hand I was born from two stars So the moon's where I land (I'm gone!)
I will never say never! (I will fight) I will fight till forever! (make it right) Whenever you knock me down I will not stay on the ground Pick it up Pick it up Pick it up Pick it up, up, up And never say never
I will never say never! (I will fight) I will fight till forever! (make it right) Whenever you knock me down I will not stay on the ground Pick it up Pick it up Pick it up, Pick it up, up, up And never say never (never say never, never, never, never)
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| 24 May 2013 08:46 PM |
Great , History class over again
~buttery~ |
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| 24 May 2013 08:46 PM |
Um....
What...?
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| 24 May 2013 08:47 PM |
| Didn't even read the first sentence. |
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| 24 May 2013 08:48 PM |
You should agree with me on point, From section 4S to 6F |
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| 24 May 2013 08:50 PM |
Come on your main and convince me.
I dare you.
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| 24 May 2013 08:50 PM |
| If more people don't view this / comment on this they are racist. |
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| 24 May 2013 08:52 PM |
Why would I need to convince you it is all there in writing, for whom shall thy be judgement-ed for not you not thy not him or not, Nor shall the be-ken of the street. |
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| 24 May 2013 08:58 PM |
LOL MLK AND ABE LINCOLN?
THIS MADE MY DAY BRB DYING |
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