On the Vietnam War....
"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values"
" These are revolutionary times. All over the globe men are revolting against old systems of exploitation and oppression and out of the wombs of a frail world new systems of justice and equality are being born. The shirtless and barefoot people of the land are rising up as never before. "The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light." We in the West must support these revolutions. It is a sad fact that, because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch anti-revolutionaries. This has driven many to feel that only Marxism has the revolutionary spirit. Therefore, communism is a judgement against our failure to make democracy real and follow through on the revolutions we initiated. "
Beyond Vietnam speech 4 April 67
MLK on his love for Mississippi ....
"I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice."
I have a Dream 28 August 63
MLK on his love for the people of Philadelphia MS.....
"This is a terrible town. The worst I've seen. There is a complete reign of terror here."
July 24, 1964
MLK on the need for prayer....
"I endorse it. I think it was correct." concering the Supreme Court removing prayer from school ( PLAYBOY magazine interview 1965)
King's son condoning a black on white hate crime...
"You are a fine young man and I intend to keep pushing until justice is served "
Martin Luther King III Jena LA to Mychal Bell of Jena 6
For those who think racism is simply a Southern thing....
"I have never in my life seen such hate," "Not in Mississippi or Alabama “ MLK On Chicago
On being a socialist...
You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You’re really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry… Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong…with capitalism… There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a Democratic Socialism.
"the movement must address itself to the question of restructuring the whole of American society. There are forty million poor people," King elaborated for his colleagues. "And one day we must ask the question, 'Why are there forty million poor people in America?' And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question you begin to question the capitalistic economy."
This post was edited on 1/17 2:03 AM by THOTH
"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values"
" These are revolutionary times. All over the globe men are revolting against old systems of exploitation and oppression and out of the wombs of a frail world new systems of justice and equality are being born. The shirtless and barefoot people of the land are rising up as never before. "The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light." We in the West must support these revolutions. It is a sad fact that, because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch anti-revolutionaries. This has driven many to feel that only Marxism has the revolutionary spirit. Therefore, communism is a judgement against our failure to make democracy real and follow through on the revolutions we initiated. "
Beyond Vietnam speech 4 April 67
MLK on his love for Mississippi ....
"I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice."
I have a Dream 28 August 63
MLK on his love for the people of Philadelphia MS.....
"This is a terrible town. The worst I've seen. There is a complete reign of terror here."
July 24, 1964
MLK on the need for prayer....
"I endorse it. I think it was correct." concering the Supreme Court removing prayer from school ( PLAYBOY magazine interview 1965)
King's son condoning a black on white hate crime...
"You are a fine young man and I intend to keep pushing until justice is served "
Martin Luther King III Jena LA to Mychal Bell of Jena 6
For those who think racism is simply a Southern thing....
"I have never in my life seen such hate," "Not in Mississippi or Alabama “ MLK On Chicago
On being a socialist...
You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You’re really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry… Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong…with capitalism… There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a Democratic Socialism.
"the movement must address itself to the question of restructuring the whole of American society. There are forty million poor people," King elaborated for his colleagues. "And one day we must ask the question, 'Why are there forty million poor people in America?' And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question you begin to question the capitalistic economy."
This post was edited on 1/17 2:03 AM by THOTH
