‘I’ve Been To The Mountaintop’ #MLK
April 3, 1968 (the evening before he was assassinated)
Full speech:https://youtu.be/gC6qxf3b3FI
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My father’s final speech, given the evening before he was assassinated, 53 years ago today. “I may not get there with you.”pic.twitter.com/8uClQSdC4m
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“Now the other thing we'll have to do is this: always anchor our external direct action with the power of economic withdrawal...We don't have to argue with anybody. We don't have to curse and go around acting bad with our words. We don't need any bricks and bottles.”
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“We don't 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 you're not treating His children right.”
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“And we've come by here to ask you to make the first item on your agenda fair treatment where God's 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."”
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I am dutch - our civil right movement in the sixties was not the same - every time I hear this speech it makes me cry. Also the speech of Robert Kennedy, 4 april 1968;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoKzCff8Zbs …
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"The Dutch...used South Africa as a hub for their slave trade, took thousands of slaves, especially in Cape Town, to the American and European continents by ship. According to historians, in 1795 two-thirds of Cape Town's population consisted of slaves." The khoikhoi massacre
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Your father played with my uncles as a small child on Auburn P.Morris And G. Belcher Both my uncles are now in the 90s They remember playing marbles and basketball, and your Gran would make them all chocate cake
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That's really cool, thx for sharing that.
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Thank you for continuing his work, and for creating your own legacy.
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He'll always be with us.
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