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Speaker 1: Martin Luther King Holiday. One of my heroes, Martin Luther King,

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Speaker 1: Happy birthday, and we salute you for all you've done.

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Speaker 1: King Day, Footsoldier Days. A day of service. Um, that's

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Speaker 1: people so hard, so hard speech. Martin Luther King, to me,

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Speaker 1: don you say what you like. I'm just telling you, Junior. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I think that's right. He's the greatest one orator. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I thought he was gonna be with you said it right,

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Speaker 1: what was he greatest gener right off all time? It's

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Speaker 1: and and let us know what doctor King's legacy means

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Speaker 1: to you. Okay, all right, Steve, time now for today's

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Speaker 1: thank you very much. Good morning, everybody. Yesterday is Doctor

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Speaker 1: Martin Luther King Junior Day, a day we honor his

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Speaker 1: Security has been ramped up today at the Virginia state

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Speaker 1: incident like the one we saw in Charlottesville in two

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Speaker 1: Senate impeachment trial against Donald J. Trump is scheduled to

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Speaker 1: begin tomorrow. Prosecution as well as defense attorneys have already

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Speaker 1: black American World War Two hero, Dorry Miller. Back then,

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Speaker 1: office was Bad Boys for Life, by what You're Gonna Do? Well,

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Speaker 1: they made a million dollars. Now back to Steve Harvey

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Speaker 1: Morning Show. You're listening to all right, We're going to

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Speaker 1: talk about racism. Steve the Social Injustices. This is your

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty. We are in a brand new year, brand

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Speaker 1: new decade. We have all witnessed racial incidents so much

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Speaker 1: of the time. A lot of Americans believe that President

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Speaker 1: Trump has made race relations worse and that they believe

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Speaker 1: it's more common for people to express racist views now

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Speaker 1: since Trump has become president. What do you think. It's

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Speaker 1: very simple. Racism exists today because there are those who

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Speaker 1: or participation with civil rights, cares nothing about affirmative action,

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Speaker 1: that is why racism exists. That's why policies exist, That's

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Speaker 1: why voter suppression and exists. That's why districting exists. That's

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Speaker 1: why they keep poorness census and we don't feel them out,

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Speaker 1: and they use that against us. They do everything in

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Speaker 1: And that's why racism exists is because there are certain

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Speaker 1: people who will not let the way things were go

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Speaker 1: and subside, and the only way for them to feel

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Speaker 1: superior is to make other people feel inferior. Period. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's true that the president, since he's become

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Speaker 1: America than they've ever been. And I guess what we

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Speaker 1: have to do. You know, we have a right to vote,

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Speaker 1: and we should exercise that right and let him know

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Speaker 1: we do not approve of what he's doing in office,

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Speaker 1: and we do that by voting. And this is a

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Speaker 1: year that we cast office speech. The whole climate change.

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Speaker 1: It made people think that are in groups that are

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Speaker 1: eight to forty million people who vote are going to

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Speaker 1: vote for him. Again. Well, Steve, we have to do

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Speaker 1: our job like we always do. And if you don't

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Speaker 1: think you're gonna run into or meet one of them

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Speaker 1: forty million people, you are sad together all right. Kids, schools,

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Speaker 1: they're at the ball game right there, sitting next to you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like that. On the flights they full of first class.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh god. And that's where I mean. We

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Speaker 1: to get out and vote. We got to vote strong.

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Speaker 1: Just when Obama was roast. The only way this has

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Speaker 1: a chance. If enough people vote, it can change. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: absolutely it can. All right. When we come back from

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Speaker 1: the break at thirty two after the hour, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: play President Obama's March on Washington fiftieth anniversary speech from

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Speaker 1: back in twenty thirteen. That's coming up right after this.

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Speaker 1: You're listening too. Happy King Day everyone, It's the King

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Speaker 1: Holiday where we celebrate the life and legacy of doctor

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Speaker 1: Martin Luther King Junior. Now, do you guys remember back

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Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen when President Obama delivered the remarks at

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Speaker 1: the let Freedom Ring ceremony. Remember? Remember everything? It was

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Speaker 1: a good old day. What's you say, Tommy? I remember everything,

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Speaker 1: every single everything, every tie, everything, every golf fleeing, every

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Speaker 1: beautiful speech. I remember everything, Omama. What you want to know? Well,

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Speaker 1: I was asking, do you remember that speech? It was

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Speaker 1: back in twenty thirteen he did the elect Freedom Ring

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Speaker 1: ceremony to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the March on

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Speaker 1: battlefield of justice. Men and women without rank or wealth,

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Speaker 1: that our children now take for granted. As people of

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Speaker 1: all colors and creeds live together, and learn together, and

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Speaker 1: of this progress, to suggest, as some sometimes do, that

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Speaker 1: of those who paid the price to march in those years,

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Speaker 1: King Jr. They did not die in vain. Their victory

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Speaker 1: to suggest that the work of this nation is somehow complete.

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Speaker 1: The arch of moral universe may bend towards justice, but

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Speaker 1: this country has made requires constant vigilance, not complacency, whether

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Speaker 1: by challenging those who erect new barriers to the vote

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Speaker 1: and the criminal justice system is not simply a pipeline

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Speaker 1: from underfunded schools to overcrowded jails. It requires vigilance, and

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Speaker 1: we'll suffer the occasional setback, but we will win these fights.

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Speaker 1: This country has changed too much. People of good will,

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Speaker 1: regardless of party, are too plentiful for those with ill

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Speaker 1: will to change history's currents. In some way as though

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Speaker 1: the securing of civil rights, voting rights, the eradication of

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Speaker 1: legalized discrimination, the very significance of these victories may have

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Speaker 1: in search of some abstract idea. They were there seeking

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Speaker 1: but the presence of economic opportunity. For what does a

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Speaker 1: This idea that one's liberty is linked to one's livelihood,

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Speaker 1: That the pursuit of happiness requires the dignity of work,

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Speaker 1: the skills to find work, decent pain, some measure of

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Speaker 1: material security. This idea was I know Lincoln himself understood

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Speaker 1: that in due time the weights should be lifted from

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Speaker 1: the shoulders of all men, and that all should have

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Speaker 1: African Americans we're identical to working people of all races.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show on this King holiday.

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Speaker 1: Remember back in twenty thirteen, President Obama delivered remarks at

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Speaker 1: the Let Freedom Ring ceremony, which was to commemorate the

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Speaker 1: fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial. Boys, Steve,

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Speaker 1: we gotta say, we sure do miss him, don't we?

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Speaker 1: What what you call that dog? They had? I miss everybody,

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Speaker 1: them two beautiful dollars. I missed everybody. Yeah, I forever

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Speaker 1: presidents going to the White House because it's the first time. Yes, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Here's some more excerpts from his fabulous speech back in

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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. And then there were those elected officials who

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Speaker 1: making for criminal behavior. Racial politics could up both ways,

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Speaker 1: on your sin. All of that history is how progress stalled.

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Speaker 1: That's how hope was diverted, so our country remained divided.

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Speaker 1: But the good news is, just as was true in

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three, we now have a choice. We can

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Speaker 1: accept a life of lower expectations, where politics is a

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Speaker 1: zero sum game where a few do very well while

641
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:21,759
Speaker 1: struggling families of every race fight over a shrinking economic pie.

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00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 1: That's one path, or we can have the courage to change.

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00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 1: The March on Washington teaches us that we are not

644
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Speaker 1: trapped by the mistakes of history that we are masters

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00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:42,399
Speaker 1: of our faith. But it also teaches us that the

646
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Speaker 1: promise of this nation will only be kept when we

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Speaker 1: work together. We'll have to reignite the embers of empathy

648
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 1: and fellow feeling, the coalition of conscience that found expression

649
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 1: in this place fifty years ago. And I believe that

650
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 1: spirit is there, that truth force inside each of us.

651
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 1: I see it when a white mother recognizes her own

652
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 1: daughter in the face of a poor black child. I

653
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 1: see it when the black youth thinks of his own

654
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 1: grandfather in the dignified steps of an elderly white man.

655
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:32,480
Speaker 1: It's there when the native born recognizing that striving spirit

656
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 1: of the new emperor. When the interracial couple connects the

657
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: pain of a gay couple who are discriminated against and

658
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:49,280
Speaker 1: understands it as their own. That's where courage comes from.

659
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:53,439
Speaker 1: When we turn not from each other or on each other,

660
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:56,719
Speaker 1: but towards one another and we find that we do

661
00:48:56,840 --> 00:49:04,360
Speaker 1: not walk alone, that's where courage comes from. And with

662
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 1: that courage, we can stand together for good jobs and

663
00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: just wages. With that courage, we can stand together for

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Speaker 1: the right to healthcare in the richest nation on earth

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00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:20,640
Speaker 1: for every person. With that courage, we can stand together

666
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:22,880
Speaker 1: for the right of every child, from the corners of

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00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:26,600
Speaker 1: Anacosta to the hills of Appalachia, to get an education

668
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:30,280
Speaker 1: that stirs the mind and captures the spirit and prepares

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Speaker 1: them for the world that awaits them. With that courage,

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00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:41,840
Speaker 1: we can feed the hunger, and house the homeless, and

671
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:45,759
Speaker 1: transform bleak waste, lands of poverty in the fields of

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00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:53,759
Speaker 1: commerce and promise America. I know the road will be long,

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00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:59,240
Speaker 1: but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble,

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00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:02,800
Speaker 1: but I know we'll get back up. That's how a

675
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 1: movement happens. That's how history bends. That's how when somebody

676
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:10,279
Speaker 1: is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along, says,

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00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: come on, we're marching. There's a reason why so many

678
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 1: who march that day and in the days to come.

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00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 1: We're young. For the young or unconstrained by habits of fear,

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00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:35,920
Speaker 1: unconstrained by the conventions of what is, they dared to

681
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 1: dream different, to imagine something better. And I am convinced

682
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:45,719
Speaker 1: that same imagination, the same hunger of purpose, stirs in

683
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Speaker 1: this generation. We might not face the same dangers of

684
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:56,360
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three but the fierce urgency of now remains.

685
00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 1: We may never duplicate the swelling crowds and dazzling procession

686
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: of that day so long ago. No one can match

687
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:09,800
Speaker 1: King's brilliance. But the same flame that lit the heart

688
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 1: of all who are willing to take a first step

689
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 1: for justice, I know that flame remains. That tireless teacher

690
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:25,239
Speaker 1: who gets to class early and stays late and dips

691
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 1: into her own pocket to buy supplies because she believes

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Speaker 1: that every child is her charge. She's marching that successful

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Speaker 1: business man who doesn't have to but pays his workers

694
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 1: a fair wage and then offers a shot to a man,

695
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:44,879
Speaker 1: maybe an ex con, who's down on his love. He's

696
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:52,359
Speaker 1: marching the mother who pours her love into her daughter

697
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 1: so that she grows up with the confidence to walk

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00:51:54,600 --> 00:52:01,880
Speaker 1: through the same doors as anybody's son. She's marching the

699
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:05,279
Speaker 1: father who realizes the most important job he'll ever have

700
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:07,600
Speaker 1: is raising his boy right, even if he didn't have

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00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:10,279
Speaker 1: a father, especially if he didn't have a father at home.

702
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 1: He's marching the battles, scarred veterans who devote themselves not

703
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:21,319
Speaker 1: only to help and their fellow warriors, stand again, and

704
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:24,280
Speaker 1: walk again, and run again, but to keep serving their country.

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00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:33,319
Speaker 1: When they come home, they are marching everyone who realizes

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00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 1: what those glorious patriots knew on that day. The change

707
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 1: does not come from Washington, but to Washington. The change

708
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:45,920
Speaker 1: has always been built on our willingness, we the people,

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00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:49,160
Speaker 1: to take on the mantle of citizenship. You are merchant,

710
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 1: and that's the lesson of our past. That's the promise

711
00:52:55,120 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 1: of tomorrow. In the face of impossible eyes, people who

712
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:03,840
Speaker 1: love their country can change it. And when millions of

713
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 1: Americans of every race and every region, every faith, and

714
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:11,320
Speaker 1: every station can join together in a spirit of brotherhood,

715
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 1: then those mountains will be made low, and those rough

716
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:18,359
Speaker 1: places will be made plain, and those crooked places now

717
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:21,719
Speaker 1: towards grace. And we will vindicate the faith of those

718
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:24,439
Speaker 1: who sacrifice so much and live up to the true

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Speaker 1: meaning of our creed as one nation under God, indivisible

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Speaker 1: with liberty injustice for all. We'll be back. You're listening show.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. Once Said that life's most

722
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 1: persistent and urgent question is what are you doing for others?

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Speaker 1: Coming up, we got some excerpts from doctor Kings. I've

724
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 1: been to the mountaintop speech. Let us rise up tonight

725
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:58,840
Speaker 1: with a greater readiness indeeds powerful days, these days of

726
00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:04,839
Speaker 1: challenge to make America what it ought to be, we

727
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:09,680
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to make America a better nation. And

728
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:14,279
Speaker 1: I want to thank God once more for allowing me

729
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:17,879
Speaker 1: to be here with you. You know, several years ago

730
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:21,880
Speaker 1: I was in New York City autographing the first book

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Speaker 1: that I had written. While sitting the autographing books, the

732
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 1: minute black woman came up. The only question I heard

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00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 1: from all was you marderin Luther King? And I was

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00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:39,920
Speaker 1: looking down writing and I said yes. The next minute

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00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:43,759
Speaker 1: I felt something beating on my chest. Before I knew it,

736
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:47,279
Speaker 1: I had been stabbed by this deminuted woman. I was

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00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 1: rushed to Hullum Hospital. It was a dog Saturday afternoon.

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00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:56,880
Speaker 1: That blade had gone through, and the X rays revealed

739
00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:00,319
Speaker 1: that the tip of the blade was on the edge

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00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:04,560
Speaker 1: of my order the main ottery and one such's punction.

741
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 1: You drowned in your own blood. That's the end of you.

742
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:11,600
Speaker 1: It came out in the New York Times the next

743
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:16,600
Speaker 1: morning that if I had merely sneezed, I would have died. Well.

744
00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:20,160
Speaker 1: About four days later they allowed me after the operation.

745
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:23,160
Speaker 1: After my chest had been opened and the blade had

746
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 1: been taken out. To move around in the wheelchair and

747
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:29,400
Speaker 1: the hospital, they allowed me to read some of the

748
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:32,200
Speaker 1: mail that came in, and from all over the states

749
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:36,640
Speaker 1: and the world. Kind letters came in. I read a few,

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00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 1: but one of them I will never forget. I had

751
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 1: received one from the President and the Vice President. I'd

752
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:48,320
Speaker 1: forgotten what those telegrams said. I'd received the visit and

753
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:50,640
Speaker 1: a letter from the Governor of New York, but I've

754
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:55,120
Speaker 1: forgotten what that letters said. But that was another letter

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00:55:56,440 --> 00:56:00,879
Speaker 1: that came from a little girl, a young girl who

756
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 1: was a student at the White Plains High School. And

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00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:06,799
Speaker 1: I looked at that letter. I'll never forget it. Say

758
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:10,960
Speaker 1: it simply, dear Doctor King, I am a ninth grade

759
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:15,839
Speaker 1: student at the White Plains High School. She said. While

760
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 1: it should not matter, I would like to mention that

761
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:23,960
Speaker 1: I'm a white girl. I read in the paper of

762
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:28,600
Speaker 1: your misfortune and of your suffering, and I read that

763
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Speaker 1: if you had sneezed, you would have died. I'm simply

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00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:35,360
Speaker 1: writing you to say that I'm so happy that you

765
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:39,960
Speaker 1: didn't sneeze, and i'd want to say the night I

766
00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:42,400
Speaker 1: want to say the night that I too, am happy

767
00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:45,800
Speaker 1: that I didn't sneeze, because if I had sneeze, I

768
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:49,800
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been around here. In nineteen sixty when students

769
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:53,520
Speaker 1: all over the South started sitting in at lunch counters,

770
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:55,920
Speaker 1: and I knew that as they were sitting in, they

771
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 1: were really standing up for the best in the American

772
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:02,640
Speaker 1: dream and taken the whole nation back to those great

773
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:05,880
Speaker 1: weals of democracy which were dug deep by the founding

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00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:10,000
Speaker 1: fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. If

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00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:13,239
Speaker 1: I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around hid in

776
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:16,640
Speaker 1: nineteen six to one when we decided to take a

777
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:20,640
Speaker 1: ride for freedom and end its segregation in it to

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00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:25,200
Speaker 1: state travel. If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been

779
00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:30,120
Speaker 1: around here. In nineteen sixty two, when Nigros and all

780
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 1: been at Georgia decided to straighten that box up. And

781
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:36,760
Speaker 1: whenever the men and women straighten that box up, they

782
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:40,640
Speaker 1: are going somewhere because a man had roger back unless

783
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:44,920
Speaker 1: it is bent. If I had sneezed, I had sneezed,

784
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:48,400
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been here. In nineteen six to three,

785
00:57:49,360 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 1: the black people of Birmingham Alabama aroused the conscience of

786
00:57:56,120 --> 00:57:59,720
Speaker 1: this nation and brought into being the Civil Rights Bill.

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00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:03,040
Speaker 1: If I had sneeze, I wouldn't have had a chance

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00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:06,640
Speaker 1: later that year in August to try to tell America

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00:58:06,680 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 1: about a dream that I had had. If I had sneeze,

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00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:16,560
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been down in Selma, Alabama to see

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00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:20,840
Speaker 1: the Gretain movement there. If I had sneeze, I wouldn't

792
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:26,400
Speaker 1: have been in Memphis to see a community rally around

793
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:30,840
Speaker 1: those brothers and sisters who are suffering. I'm so happy

794
00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 1: that I didn't sneeze, and they were telling them now

795
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter now, it really doesn't matter what happens now.

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00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:42,800
Speaker 1: I left Atlanta this morning, and as we got started

797
00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:45,200
Speaker 1: on the plane that was six of us, the pilot

798
00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 1: said over the public address system, we are sorry for

799
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:54,440
Speaker 1: the delayed, but we have doctor mart Luther King on

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00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 1: the plane, and to be sure that all of the

801
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:03,240
Speaker 1: bags were checked and to be sure that nothing would

802
00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:06,320
Speaker 1: be wrong on the plane, we had to check out

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00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:11,800
Speaker 1: everything carefully, and we've had the plane protected and got

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00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:16,160
Speaker 1: it all night. And then I got into Memphis and

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00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:20,880
Speaker 1: some began to say the threats I talk about the

806
00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 1: threats that were out, or what would happen to me

807
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:30,640
Speaker 1: from some of our sick white brothers. Well, I don't

808
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:34,400
Speaker 1: know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead,

809
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 1: but it really doesn't matter with me now because I've

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00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:44,000
Speaker 1: been to the mountaintop. I don't mind. Like anybody, I

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Speaker 1: would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place,

812
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:55,200
Speaker 1: but I'm not concerned about that now. I just want

813
00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 1: to do God's will, and He's allowed me to go

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00:59:59,840 --> 01:00:05,000
Speaker 1: up to the mountain, and I've looked over and I've

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01:00:05,040 --> 01:00:10,560
Speaker 1: seen the promised Land. I may not get that with

816
01:00:10,640 --> 01:00:14,560
Speaker 1: you when I want you to know the night that

817
01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:18,080
Speaker 1: we as a people will get to the Promised Land.

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01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:23,560
Speaker 1: So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm

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01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:27,280
Speaker 1: a feeling in a man. Mine eyes have seen the

820
01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:32,360
Speaker 1: glory all the coming of the Lord. You're listening morning

821
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Speaker 1: show coming up. We're gonna play some excerpts from Doctor

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Speaker 1: King's I Have a Dream speech. I am happy to

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Speaker 1: john with you today. And what will go down in

824
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:53,280
Speaker 1: history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history

825
01:00:53,360 --> 01:01:05,040
Speaker 1: of our nation, five score years ago, a great American

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Speaker 1: in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

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01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:18,760
Speaker 1: This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of

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Speaker 1: hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared

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Speaker 1: in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a

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01:01:28,640 --> 01:01:34,800
Speaker 1: joyous day break to end the long night of their captivity.

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Speaker 1: But one hundred years later, the Negro steal is not free.

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01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:46,320
Speaker 1: One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is

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01:01:46,400 --> 01:01:51,960
Speaker 1: still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the

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01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:57,800
Speaker 1: chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the negro lives

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Speaker 1: on a lonely island of property in the midst of

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Speaker 1: a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later,

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Speaker 1: the negro is still languished in the corners of American

838
01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:20,320
Speaker 1: society and finds himself in exile in his own land.

839
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Speaker 1: So we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

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01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:32,000
Speaker 1: In a sense, we've come to our nation's capital to

841
01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:39,520
Speaker 1: cash a check. When the architects of our Republic wrote

842
01:02:39,520 --> 01:02:44,280
Speaker 1: the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence,

843
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:50,560
Speaker 1: they were signing a promise or rene to whichever the

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Speaker 1: American was to fall our. This note was a promise

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Speaker 1: at all men, Yes, black men have well as white men,

846
01:03:02,200 --> 01:03:07,680
Speaker 1: would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and

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01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:14,440
Speaker 1: the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America

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01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:18,760
Speaker 1: has defaulted on this promisory note in so far as

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Speaker 1: her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this

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01:03:25,040 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 1: sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check,

851
01:03:32,080 --> 01:03:40,520
Speaker 1: a check which has come back mark insufficient funds. But

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01:03:40,720 --> 01:03:44,680
Speaker 1: we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

853
01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:51,800
Speaker 1: He refused to believe that that are insufficient funds in

854
01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:55,400
Speaker 1: the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so

855
01:03:55,440 --> 01:03:58,600
Speaker 1: we've come to cash this check, a check that will

856
01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:02,000
Speaker 1: give us a pun demand and the riches of freedom

857
01:04:02,040 --> 01:04:12,520
Speaker 1: and the security of justice. We have also come to

858
01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:16,720
Speaker 1: this hell of spot to remind the miracle of the

859
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:23,480
Speaker 1: fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage

860
01:04:23,600 --> 01:04:27,600
Speaker 1: in the luxury of cooling, offer to take the tranquilizing

861
01:04:27,760 --> 01:04:38,320
Speaker 1: drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real

862
01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:45,040
Speaker 1: the promises of democracy. Now is the time arise from

863
01:04:45,080 --> 01:04:49,000
Speaker 1: the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit

864
01:04:49,120 --> 01:04:58,000
Speaker 1: path of racial justice. Now is the time from the

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01:04:58,120 --> 01:05:02,440
Speaker 1: quick ends of racial and to the solid rock of brotherhood.

866
01:05:02,600 --> 01:05:09,360
Speaker 1: Now is the time of the reality for all of

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Speaker 1: God's to It would be fatal for the nation to

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01:05:14,280 --> 01:05:19,760
Speaker 1: overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of

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01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:26,120
Speaker 1: the Negroes. Legitimate discontent will not pass until that is

870
01:05:26,200 --> 01:05:31,560
Speaker 1: an invigorating altum of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty three

871
01:05:31,680 --> 01:05:35,760
Speaker 1: is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope

872
01:05:36,560 --> 01:05:40,120
Speaker 1: that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will

873
01:05:40,160 --> 01:05:44,240
Speaker 1: now be content, we'll have a rude awakening. If the

874
01:05:44,360 --> 01:05:54,680
Speaker 1: nation returns to business as usual, that will be neither

875
01:05:54,840 --> 01:05:59,960
Speaker 1: rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is grant

876
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:04,800
Speaker 1: did his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds a revolt will continue

877
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:08,560
Speaker 1: to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright

878
01:06:08,680 --> 01:06:12,800
Speaker 1: day of justice emerges. But that is something that I

879
01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:16,200
Speaker 1: must say to my people who stand on the warm

880
01:06:16,440 --> 01:06:20,840
Speaker 1: threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the

881
01:06:20,920 --> 01:06:24,960
Speaker 1: process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be

882
01:06:25,520 --> 01:06:29,200
Speaker 1: guilty of wrong for deeds. Let us not seek to

883
01:06:29,240 --> 01:06:33,840
Speaker 1: satisfy first for freedom by drinking from the cup of

884
01:06:33,840 --> 01:06:49,040
Speaker 1: bitterness and hatred. You're listening right now as promise, we're

885
01:06:49,040 --> 01:06:51,000
Speaker 1: gonna play some of doctor Kings. I have a dream

886
01:06:51,040 --> 01:06:53,360
Speaker 1: speech which he delivered on the steps of the Lincoln

887
01:06:53,400 --> 01:06:57,640
Speaker 1: Memorial back in nineteen sixty three. One day, right bad

888
01:06:57,680 --> 01:07:01,760
Speaker 1: in Alabama, little black bars and girls will be able

889
01:07:01,760 --> 01:07:04,480
Speaker 1: to join hands with little white bars and white girls

890
01:07:04,720 --> 01:07:09,360
Speaker 1: as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I

891
01:07:09,440 --> 01:07:13,120
Speaker 1: have a dream that one day every valid shall be exalted,

892
01:07:14,080 --> 01:07:16,640
Speaker 1: Every hill and mountains shall be made low, the rough

893
01:07:16,720 --> 01:07:19,960
Speaker 1: places will be made clean, and the crooked places will

894
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:22,240
Speaker 1: be made straight, and the gore of the Lord shall

895
01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:26,360
Speaker 1: be revealed in all such shall see it together. This

896
01:07:26,480 --> 01:07:29,880
Speaker 1: is our hope. This is a peace that I go

897
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:34,120
Speaker 1: back to the southwire. With this faith we will be

898
01:07:34,240 --> 01:07:37,000
Speaker 1: able to hell out of the mountain of despair a

899
01:07:37,120 --> 01:07:41,320
Speaker 1: stone of hoot. With this fame, we will be able

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01:07:41,360 --> 01:07:45,240
Speaker 1: to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a

901
01:07:45,280 --> 01:07:49,920
Speaker 1: beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be

902
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:53,440
Speaker 1: able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together,

903
01:07:53,640 --> 01:07:57,040
Speaker 1: to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together,

904
01:07:57,600 --> 01:08:05,760
Speaker 1: knowing that we will be free. One day. This will

905
01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:09,640
Speaker 1: be the day when all of God's children be able

906
01:08:09,720 --> 01:08:14,200
Speaker 1: to sing with new meaning my country tears at the

907
01:08:14,200 --> 01:08:18,400
Speaker 1: sweet land of liberty of bi sings land where my

908
01:08:18,560 --> 01:08:24,000
Speaker 1: fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride. From every mountain side,

909
01:08:25,040 --> 01:08:27,759
Speaker 1: Let freedom ring of Americus. To be a great nation,

910
01:08:28,439 --> 01:08:33,400
Speaker 1: this must become true. So let freedom ring from the

911
01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:37,640
Speaker 1: prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the

912
01:08:37,720 --> 01:08:41,840
Speaker 1: mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the

913
01:08:41,880 --> 01:08:46,439
Speaker 1: heightening allegantes of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow

914
01:08:46,479 --> 01:08:51,520
Speaker 1: cap rookis of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the carebacious

915
01:08:51,560 --> 01:08:56,639
Speaker 1: slaps of California. But not only that. Let freedom ring

916
01:08:56,920 --> 01:09:02,599
Speaker 1: from storm mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from lookout

917
01:09:02,720 --> 01:09:07,680
Speaker 1: mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and

918
01:09:07,880 --> 01:09:13,320
Speaker 1: mole hill of Mississippi, from every mountain fire, then freedom

919
01:09:13,400 --> 01:09:19,559
Speaker 1: ring and wind. It happens when we allow freedom ring.

920
01:09:20,479 --> 01:09:22,800
Speaker 1: When we let in a ring from every village and

921
01:09:22,880 --> 01:09:27,840
Speaker 1: ever hamlet from every state and every city, we will

922
01:09:27,880 --> 01:09:32,040
Speaker 1: be able to speed up that day when all about children,

923
01:09:32,200 --> 01:09:36,360
Speaker 1: black men and pike men, Jews and tent files, Protestants

924
01:09:36,360 --> 01:09:39,600
Speaker 1: and Catholic will be able to drain the hands and

925
01:09:39,800 --> 01:09:43,519
Speaker 1: singing the words of the old Negro spiritual, Free at Last,

926
01:09:44,080 --> 01:09:51,040
Speaker 1: Free at Last. Thank Ptom Father that you're listening. Steve

927
01:09:51,200 --> 01:09:56,280
Speaker 1: Harvey Morning Show. I said, Steve, on this King Holiday.

928
01:09:56,520 --> 01:10:00,200
Speaker 1: You know, earlier we were talking about race relations in America,

929
01:10:00,439 --> 01:10:03,879
Speaker 1: and listen to this. More than one hundred and fifty

930
01:10:03,960 --> 01:10:08,680
Speaker 1: years after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the US,

931
01:10:08,920 --> 01:10:12,600
Speaker 1: most US adults say the legacy of slavery continues to

932
01:10:12,680 --> 01:10:15,160
Speaker 1: have an impact on the position of black people in

933
01:10:15,200 --> 01:10:19,479
Speaker 1: American society today. More than four and ten say the

934
01:10:19,560 --> 01:10:23,519
Speaker 1: country hasn't made enough progress toward racial equality, and there

935
01:10:23,640 --> 01:10:27,880
Speaker 1: is some skepticism, particularly among blacks, that black people will

936
01:10:27,920 --> 01:10:30,880
Speaker 1: ever have equal rights with whites, according to a new

937
01:10:30,920 --> 01:10:37,320
Speaker 1: Pew Research Center Pew Research Survey Center. So I'm an

938
01:10:37,320 --> 01:10:41,120
Speaker 1: agreement with that, really and truly. I mean, you know,

939
01:10:41,520 --> 01:10:45,800
Speaker 1: it hasn't made enough progress. Yeah, it hasn't. But this

940
01:10:45,840 --> 01:10:50,360
Speaker 1: can be changed. This can be changed, but it will

941
01:10:50,439 --> 01:10:55,240
Speaker 1: require a massive effort on our part. We have to

942
01:10:55,280 --> 01:10:59,920
Speaker 1: get judges elected, We have to have to get made

943
01:11:00,160 --> 01:11:07,680
Speaker 1: is elected, governors, senators, congressman elected. We have to change it.

944
01:11:08,120 --> 01:11:14,320
Speaker 1: Can't be people who don't get you making decisions about you,

945
01:11:15,520 --> 01:11:19,519
Speaker 1: even in the court system, and so we are so

946
01:11:19,880 --> 01:11:26,280
Speaker 1: unjustly and over the top centers compared to anybody else

947
01:11:26,439 --> 01:11:29,320
Speaker 1: that it's ridiculous. And why is that because of the

948
01:11:29,400 --> 01:11:33,479
Speaker 1: preconceived connotations that people hold about us. We have to

949
01:11:33,600 --> 01:11:36,639
Speaker 1: change all of this, but it's going to take a

950
01:11:36,680 --> 01:11:41,960
Speaker 1: massive effort on our part to rid ourselves of those people.

951
01:11:42,040 --> 01:11:45,920
Speaker 1: Now that will always be people always. We are never

952
01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:49,240
Speaker 1: going to get rid of opposition. That will never happen.

953
01:11:49,320 --> 01:11:52,920
Speaker 1: That's that's a world that we that we set up

954
01:11:53,240 --> 01:11:56,080
Speaker 1: to end a long time ago, all the way back

955
01:11:56,120 --> 01:11:59,679
Speaker 1: to Adam and Eve that ended that world got thrown

956
01:11:59,680 --> 01:12:03,600
Speaker 1: out there with so it'll be with us. But we

957
01:12:03,640 --> 01:12:06,719
Speaker 1: can do something about it. We have to create more

958
01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:14,439
Speaker 1: and more and more successful people who are black, brown, yellow, red.

959
01:12:15,720 --> 01:12:18,920
Speaker 1: It has to be more. And when you do that,

960
01:12:19,360 --> 01:12:22,519
Speaker 1: you can bring about change here. You have to vote

961
01:12:22,640 --> 01:12:26,599
Speaker 1: and it can You can start with yourself. Yeah, you

962
01:12:26,600 --> 01:12:29,200
Speaker 1: can get yourself to the highest level you can possibly

963
01:12:29,240 --> 01:12:31,920
Speaker 1: achieve for you. Not saying everybody got to go out

964
01:12:31,960 --> 01:12:34,680
Speaker 1: and become millionaires or stars or nothing like that, No,

965
01:12:35,880 --> 01:12:37,960
Speaker 1: but everybody has to get out of here and be

966
01:12:38,080 --> 01:12:42,240
Speaker 1: productive citizens. Everybody has to get out of here and

967
01:12:42,320 --> 01:12:44,960
Speaker 1: live as righteous a life as we can, and everybody

968
01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:46,680
Speaker 1: got to get out of here and vote. If you

969
01:12:46,760 --> 01:12:51,240
Speaker 1: do that, man, we can change so many things. My opinion,

970
01:12:51,560 --> 01:12:56,400
Speaker 1: my opinion, black brown yeller what my uncle said, not own.

971
01:13:00,080 --> 01:13:06,160
Speaker 1: So only one more statistics say that about six and

972
01:13:06,240 --> 01:13:09,320
Speaker 1: ten African Americans say black people are treated less fairly

973
01:13:09,360 --> 01:13:13,639
Speaker 1: than white and hiring pay and promotions, shopping in stores

974
01:13:13,720 --> 01:13:17,320
Speaker 1: or dining in restaurants, when voting in elections. Yeah, and

975
01:13:17,320 --> 01:13:20,479
Speaker 1: when seeking medical treatment as well. Oh I can tell

976
01:13:20,520 --> 01:13:23,920
Speaker 1: you about that. Tell us, Junior, taking medicals. I get

977
01:13:23,960 --> 01:13:25,920
Speaker 1: treated differently in the emergency room. Oh no, they sit

978
01:13:25,960 --> 01:13:27,040
Speaker 1: there and let me sit in there and wait, we'll

979
01:13:27,040 --> 01:13:28,720
Speaker 1: just sit in cell christ I get. I sit there

980
01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:31,000
Speaker 1: maybe an hour before somebody come in and say, okay,

981
01:13:31,040 --> 01:13:33,840
Speaker 1: we'll see you now. Didn't gonna determine whether I'm faking.

982
01:13:34,000 --> 01:13:37,280
Speaker 1: They think you're fake. Oh yeah, how do you fake?

983
01:13:37,439 --> 01:13:40,200
Speaker 1: I don't know, but that's their mindset. Oh he don't

984
01:13:40,240 --> 01:13:43,760
Speaker 1: want nothing about some drugs. That's what he's in. That's

985
01:13:43,800 --> 01:13:47,800
Speaker 1: the problem. Yeah, yeah, that's what did my blood want

986
01:13:47,840 --> 01:13:49,759
Speaker 1: to come back? They may come back with a different statement.

987
01:13:49,880 --> 01:13:54,160
Speaker 1: Oh well he's not playing, Wow, Junior, I didn't know that.

988
01:13:53,840 --> 01:13:56,400
Speaker 1: People in first class. So what do you do? What

989
01:13:56,400 --> 01:13:58,599
Speaker 1: the hell do you do? Right? What do you do?

990
01:13:58,760 --> 01:14:01,439
Speaker 1: And the same survey, white people tend to say that

991
01:14:01,479 --> 01:14:04,400
Speaker 1: black people and white people are treated about equally. Very

992
01:14:04,400 --> 01:14:07,720
Speaker 1: small shares say white people are treated less fairly than

993
01:14:07,760 --> 01:14:11,400
Speaker 1: black people. What they say white people are treat it

994
01:14:11,479 --> 01:14:15,640
Speaker 1: less fairly. A small percentage say that white people are

995
01:14:15,640 --> 01:14:19,720
Speaker 1: treated less fairly white. That's small percentage. I have some

996
01:14:19,760 --> 01:14:26,160
Speaker 1: people they could ride with just for six hours. I

997
01:14:26,280 --> 01:14:28,679
Speaker 1: got some people you could ride with for six hours,

998
01:14:29,080 --> 01:14:32,800
Speaker 1: and I want you to see how they're treated. Yeah,

999
01:14:32,840 --> 01:14:34,639
Speaker 1: all right, we'll be back with more of the Steve

1000
01:14:34,640 --> 01:14:40,280
Speaker 1: Every Morning show. Right after this, you're listening to Steven Show.

1001
01:14:41,800 --> 01:14:45,080
Speaker 1: As the Bows told, we commit to a life of

1002
01:14:45,160 --> 01:14:48,400
Speaker 1: service because doctor King. One of my favorite cults from

1003
01:14:48,439 --> 01:14:52,360
Speaker 1: him is not everybody can be famous, but everybody can

1004
01:14:52,400 --> 01:14:57,200
Speaker 1: be great because greatness is determined by service. King, Holiday

1005
01:14:57,400 --> 01:15:01,160
Speaker 1: is what are you doing to serve others? Steve? Of course,

1006
01:15:01,200 --> 01:15:04,120
Speaker 1: you and your wife Marjorie always give back your foundation

1007
01:15:04,160 --> 01:15:08,759
Speaker 1: to Steve and Marjorie Harvey Foundation. Most recently this past

1008
01:15:08,800 --> 01:15:12,439
Speaker 1: holiday season, your family gave aways lots and lots and

1009
01:15:12,560 --> 01:15:16,960
Speaker 1: lots of toys to a whole bunch of families in Africa.

1010
01:15:17,080 --> 01:15:19,840
Speaker 1: We saw that on social media, of course. I mean,

1011
01:15:19,880 --> 01:15:24,040
Speaker 1: you know, look, it's it's a way of life, you know,

1012
01:15:24,360 --> 01:15:26,960
Speaker 1: it's a part of it. If you don't do it,

1013
01:15:27,200 --> 01:15:30,400
Speaker 1: I don't know how I could justify my existence. I

1014
01:15:30,479 --> 01:15:34,360
Speaker 1: really don't, you know. But at the same time, if

1015
01:15:34,400 --> 01:15:38,240
Speaker 1: you're not fortunate enough to help anybody right now, your

1016
01:15:38,640 --> 01:15:40,960
Speaker 1: goal should be to just be able to get yourself

1017
01:15:41,000 --> 01:15:43,080
Speaker 1: in a position where maybe the following year you'll be

1018
01:15:43,120 --> 01:15:46,439
Speaker 1: able to do something. You know, prayer changes things, People's

1019
01:15:46,479 --> 01:15:49,439
Speaker 1: lives turn around, people get it together. You never know,

1020
01:15:49,479 --> 01:15:53,479
Speaker 1: the light switch comes on. It's encouraging for everybody to understand.

1021
01:15:53,520 --> 01:15:55,720
Speaker 1: So I don't want it to be like how much

1022
01:15:55,760 --> 01:16:00,320
Speaker 1: we do. I'm so fortunate that God bless us us

1023
01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:04,400
Speaker 1: to be able to do something. That's that's the real

1024
01:16:04,720 --> 01:16:09,040
Speaker 1: gift right there, that I am able to help somebody else,

1025
01:16:09,120 --> 01:16:12,560
Speaker 1: And I'm God for that and want everybody else to

1026
01:16:12,640 --> 01:16:15,040
Speaker 1: just keep your faith because it can fip around for you,

1027
01:16:15,720 --> 01:16:18,759
Speaker 1: it can happen to you. That's right. That's right again.

1028
01:16:18,800 --> 01:16:21,160
Speaker 1: Happy King Day. This is the day we celebrate the

1029
01:16:21,200 --> 01:16:24,320
Speaker 1: life and legacy of doctor Martin Luther King Junior. You're

1030
01:16:24,360 --> 01:16:29,760
Speaker 1: listening to show. Happy King Day everyone. It's the King

1031
01:16:29,840 --> 01:16:32,840
Speaker 1: Holiday where we celebrate the life and legacy of doctor

1032
01:16:32,840 --> 01:16:35,559
Speaker 1: Martin Luther King Junior. Now, do you guys remember back

1033
01:16:35,560 --> 01:16:40,000
Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen when President Obama delivered the remarks at

1034
01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:43,519
Speaker 1: the let Freedom Ring ceremony. Remember remember everything? It was

1035
01:16:43,560 --> 01:16:47,160
Speaker 1: a good old day. Everything. What you say, Tommy, I

1036
01:16:47,160 --> 01:16:52,439
Speaker 1: remember everything about every single everything, every tie, every super

1037
01:16:52,760 --> 01:16:57,400
Speaker 1: every golf swing, every beautiful speech. I remember everything. I

1038
01:16:57,479 --> 01:17:00,439
Speaker 1: don't Mama, what you want to know? Well, I was asking,

1039
01:17:00,560 --> 01:17:02,920
Speaker 1: do you remember that speech? It was back in twenty

1040
01:17:03,120 --> 01:17:06,480
Speaker 1: thirteen he did the elect Freedom Ring ceremony to commemorate

1041
01:17:06,520 --> 01:17:09,800
Speaker 1: the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington at the

1042
01:17:09,840 --> 01:17:13,480
Speaker 1: Lincoln Memorial. Take a listen on the battlefield of justice.

1043
01:17:14,080 --> 01:17:17,800
Speaker 1: Men and women without rank or wealth, or title or fame,

1044
01:17:18,400 --> 01:17:21,760
Speaker 1: would liberate us all in ways that our children now

1045
01:17:21,800 --> 01:17:24,599
Speaker 1: take for granted. As people of all colors and creeds

1046
01:17:24,600 --> 01:17:29,080
Speaker 1: live together, and learn together, and walk together, and fight

1047
01:17:29,080 --> 01:17:34,240
Speaker 1: alongside one another, and love one another and judge one

1048
01:17:34,240 --> 01:17:39,240
Speaker 1: another by the content of our character, and this greatest

1049
01:17:39,280 --> 01:17:44,759
Speaker 1: nation on earth, to dismiss the magnitude of this progress,

1050
01:17:45,320 --> 01:17:49,920
Speaker 1: to suggest, as some sometimes do that little has changed.

1051
01:17:50,520 --> 01:17:55,000
Speaker 1: That dishonor is the courage and the sacrifice of those

1052
01:17:55,040 --> 01:18:03,519
Speaker 1: who paid the price to march in those years, Medga Harhurst,

1053
01:18:04,200 --> 01:18:11,400
Speaker 1: James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, Martin Luther King Jr.

1054
01:18:11,960 --> 01:18:19,799
Speaker 1: They did not die in vain. Their victory was great.

1055
01:18:20,680 --> 01:18:24,040
Speaker 1: But we would dishonor those heroes as well to suggest

1056
01:18:24,120 --> 01:18:27,519
Speaker 1: that the work of this nation is somehow complete. The

1057
01:18:27,680 --> 01:18:31,639
Speaker 1: arch of moral universe may bend towards justice, but it

1058
01:18:31,640 --> 01:18:36,080
Speaker 1: doesn't bend on its own. To secure the gains this

1059
01:18:36,240 --> 01:18:42,280
Speaker 1: country has made requires constant vigilance, not complacency, whether by

1060
01:18:42,400 --> 01:18:46,640
Speaker 1: challenging those who erect new barriers to the vote or

1061
01:18:46,760 --> 01:18:50,000
Speaker 1: ensuring that the scales of justice work equally for all.

1062
01:18:50,040 --> 01:18:52,680
Speaker 1: And the criminal justice system is not simply a pipeline

1063
01:18:52,880 --> 01:19:03,760
Speaker 1: from underfunded schools to overcrowded jails. It requires vigilance. You're

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Speaker 1: listening to show, all right, Steve. We all know we've

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Speaker 1: talked about it in the show, and we talk about

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Speaker 1: it quite often, the divide that is in this country.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we need reform, we need healing, we need

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Speaker 1: lots of things. And one of the ways we can

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Speaker 1: do that is by casting our vote, amongst other things.

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Speaker 1: You know, Doctor King once said the time is always

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Speaker 1: right to do what is right. I love that quote.

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Speaker 1: So as we celebrate Doctor King Day today his life

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Speaker 1: and his legacy, make this day a day of service

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Speaker 1: and make a difference in your community. Steve, Yeah, you know, um,

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Speaker 1: you know it's I've been had so many of these

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Speaker 1: Mark Luther King days and had so many days of memories,

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Speaker 1: you know, because like for me, like I said earlier,

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Speaker 1: this happened in sixty eight so and I've dealt with

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Speaker 1: it on several different levels, and for many years it

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Speaker 1: was just this time of the year was very angry

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01:20:05,320 --> 01:20:08,200
Speaker 1: time for me, you know, because they killed a hero

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Speaker 1: of ours and how could they and there was no

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Speaker 1: remorse for it, and then there was no justifying who

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Speaker 1: really did it, and so forth and so on. But

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Speaker 1: as I got older, I came to understand what Marl

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Speaker 1: Luther King was really about and what he was trying

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Speaker 1: to get us to see, and how his life was

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Speaker 1: taken at such an early age, but it had such

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Speaker 1: an impact on the world globally, and you know, you know,

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Speaker 1: look not just naturally, so I mean, as as I

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Speaker 1: look at it now, I understand what he was trying

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Speaker 1: to do, and he was one of the great leaders

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Speaker 1: of our time. And I just I don't know if

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Speaker 1: this is acceptable to say, but I just don't think

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01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:56,040
Speaker 1: that we've had a leader of that magnitude since him,

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Speaker 1: not for our community. We've had people who've made contributions.

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Speaker 1: Of course, you know Obama made a contribution, major contribution

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Speaker 1: by coming to president. You know, there were people your

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Speaker 1: Al Sharpton has made contributions. You know, it's been to people.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to get into NACA. I want to

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Speaker 1: think I'm trying to just single only people, but just

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Speaker 1: off the top of that, people have made contributions, you know.

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Speaker 1: I think it's important for us all to realize that

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Speaker 1: all of us can make a contribution. You don't have

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Speaker 1: to be famous or rich to make a contribution, because

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Speaker 1: Marl Luther King was not a rich man. Gandhi was

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01:21:36,280 --> 01:21:39,799
Speaker 1: not a rich man. Mother Teresa was not a rich woman.

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01:21:40,840 --> 01:21:44,280
Speaker 1: But the contribution that they made, and I think that's

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01:21:44,280 --> 01:21:46,519
Speaker 1: a message for all of us that no matter who

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Speaker 1: you are and where you are in life, you can

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Speaker 1: make You can make a contribution. You can affect one

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Speaker 1: child's life. Every woman that sees a girl going astraight,

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Speaker 1: if you pulled her to the side and just said, hey, look,

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Speaker 1: I like to invite you to my home just to

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Speaker 1: share with you some things, because you look like you're

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Speaker 1: gonna be a fine young lady. Sometimes young girls have

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Speaker 1: never heard that, and so you see them doing the

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Speaker 1: wrong thing, and maybe you can pull them to the

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Speaker 1: side and be encouraging. Same thing with boys. A young man,

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Speaker 1: let me talk to you where you're headed in life?

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Speaker 1: You look like you got something on the ball. What's

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01:22:18,320 --> 01:22:22,120
Speaker 1: going on with you? It don't always work, but I've

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Speaker 1: seen it work time and time and time again. And

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Speaker 1: all of us as individuals can make a contribution to

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Speaker 1: this thing. We can live our lives where we affect

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Speaker 1: the life. If you don't have the money to have

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Speaker 1: a mentor in Cambra brain, hundreds of boys down there.

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Speaker 1: It's fine. Can't you have one boy over, just one?

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Speaker 1: Can't you take one boy to the park, just one?

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Speaker 1: Can't you go down to boys and girls club and

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Speaker 1: adopt become a big brother to one boy one girl.

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Speaker 1: That's all it takes. Man. And on the last thing,

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Speaker 1: I like to say, it's just the fathers. This probably

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Speaker 1: ain't the tone for Mark Luther King Day. But if

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Speaker 1: every father would be a daddy, we wouldn't have to

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Speaker 1: have mentoring camps at all. So fathers, just take some

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Speaker 1: time out contact your child. If you ain't been present, apologize. Women,

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Speaker 1: stop holding for those of you that's doing that. Stopped

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Speaker 1: holding the children as pawns in the relationship. If you

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01:23:30,520 --> 01:23:33,519
Speaker 1: don't pay this money, you ain't seeing the baby. Look.

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01:23:33,600 --> 01:23:36,920
Speaker 1: I know men who have been embarrassed by that, to

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Speaker 1: the hundreds and thousands. I was in that position one

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Speaker 1: time in my life where I was embarrassed. Why I

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Speaker 1: couldn't take care of my family. But I ask God

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Speaker 1: to help me to pick me up and get me

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Speaker 1: on my feet. Why I could be what I was

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01:23:51,920 --> 01:23:55,720
Speaker 1: supposed to be. But I was very fortunate in that

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Speaker 1: I didn't not have an exit my first wife, who

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01:24:00,600 --> 01:24:04,719
Speaker 1: held the children as pawns. She was always a great

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Speaker 1: mother in that regard, saying, look, whatever you need to do,

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Speaker 1: get yourself together, see these kids. Okay. Cool. So I

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Speaker 1: got myself together and I had a chance to. But

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Speaker 1: if you are a woman's using kids as palms, stop

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01:24:17,200 --> 01:24:19,800
Speaker 1: doing that. Let this man see them childs. Because it

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01:24:19,800 --> 01:24:24,840
Speaker 1: ain't the money the child is looking for. It's the companionship,

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01:24:25,680 --> 01:24:29,600
Speaker 1: it's the love, It's the feeling of being able to say,

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Speaker 1: I talk to my daddy. This a picture of me

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Speaker 1: and my daddy. Do you know what that does for

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Speaker 1: a young girl in her life? Do you have any

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Speaker 1: idea what that does for a young boy that individual?

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Speaker 1: Step right there from every single man in this country

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Speaker 1: who is a father, and you cannot replace your old

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01:24:51,000 --> 01:24:54,519
Speaker 1: family with a new family and treat them right and

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01:24:54,640 --> 01:24:58,280
Speaker 1: forget about the old family, because guess what, that's not

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Speaker 1: the trade off the God ours. So even in that way,

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01:25:03,960 --> 01:25:07,439
Speaker 1: we can all make a contribution on this holiday. We

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01:25:07,479 --> 01:25:11,120
Speaker 1: can all make contribution by mentoring, becoming a big brother

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01:25:11,120 --> 01:25:14,240
Speaker 1: a little sister to somebody. We can all make a

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01:25:14,280 --> 01:25:17,479
Speaker 1: contribution by sitting down and just and talking with the enemy.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, man, you cannot have peace without talking

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Speaker 1: with the enemy. So get that notion out your head.

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Speaker 1: I don't talk with the enemy. It's the only way

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01:25:27,240 --> 01:25:29,519
Speaker 1: to solve problems. So sometimes you gotta sit down with

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01:25:29,560 --> 01:25:31,680
Speaker 1: the person you don't really agree with to see if

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01:25:31,680 --> 01:25:34,040
Speaker 1: you can come to some form of agreement. Those are

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Speaker 1: my closing remarks to day. I'm just did that because

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Speaker 1: I finally learned what mar and Luther King really meant.

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Speaker 1: I stopped being mad about him getting killed. I'm still mad,

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Speaker 1: but let it go. By my closing remarks, y'all have

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Speaker 1: a great weekend. Steve Harvey out by. It's Monday. It's Monday,

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