Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Foresaw His Own Death - April 4, 1968

tears come to my eyes. Every time! I only wish it had that effect on every American. Thank you for posting this Don. What a great man... :(

and what I find so disheartening is we still seem to have so far to go to reach the goals Rev. King was striving for in his lifetime.

He was a great man.

Don

Dr. King's speeches move me to tears, as well as Ghandi's, Robert Kennedy, Castro, Che G., Savio, Eugene Debbs, Kucinich, Studs T, Molly I, Robert Fisk, Krugman, Palast, Hightower..........and the list just goes on and on.

Do we "the liberals, and the left", have a chance in hell. I'm believing the answer is no. We are f''d......

Hope to see all of you here, on another planet soon.

"Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord."

And when I say "they", I'm not referring to James Earl Ray, or even his mystery pal "Raoul".

I believe MLK knew they had a hit on him and that his days were numbered. And like the assasination that happenned 5 years before, and the one that would follow 2 months later, the parties to blame are the same, and not the ones we were all led to believe. :grr:

MIHOP.

And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh. Come... let us slay him... and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
-- Genesis 37:19-20

I believe that this passage was inscribed in a memorial to King at or near the hotel where he was assassinated.

I don't think anything could have been more fitting for King, or the dreams that he left behind. :-(

Do you have a house made of tin foil or do you only wrap yourself?

Thanks for your input.

Somehow, some way, he knew the end was at hand. It was stunning at the time, and still stuns me today.

one man in the name of love...april 4 shot rings out in the memphis sky..free at last while they took your life they could not take your pride..."

"I Have A Dream" may be the more indelible work, but "Beyond Vietnam" serves as a kind of bookend--the nightmare to the dream. Just like Robert Kennedy, he saw the future of America, and tried to do everything he could to stop it. Don't believe the media for one f@#$ing minute--Dr. King was NOT past his prime when he was struck down, he was evolving into the human rights advocate of our time, fully prepared to end Johnson's mad war against the Vietnamese.

He was TAKEN from us...don't ever forget that.

"I would have followed you to the very end...my brother, my captain, my King."--J.R.R. Tolkien

step into his shoes...we really need someone like that now.

Although his time was before mine, I cannot help but feel a great appreciation for the things that he did to bring people of all colors together in America, and also a tremendous sense of sadness for what he might yet have been able to accomplish. We are so much better off today for what he was able to do in such a short period of time.

I really, really hate it that we lost truly great leaders and visionaries like Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, people who could have taken this country and the entire world into a completely different direction than where it is today. Imagine if the United States had truly realized the highest level of its own founding principles? We might not be living amidst a global utopia today, but it might very well seem as if it were the next best thing.

Unfortunately, we now seem to be stuck with the perpetual shortsightedness and mediocrity of men like the Bushes and Dick Cheney, who strive not for the betterment of humanity as a whole, but rather to realize their own, vain and materialistic ambitions. Could the contrast between the highest and lowest of our leaders be any more extreme?

I wonder as well as most everyone here, where are the Kings and Kennedys of our world today?

Yes, he had a message, he was a movement, he was powerful. He and RK, were a moment in time. They were taken from us and we let it happen and "we, the people", let "them" get away with it.

How many more before we march again on Washington?

Thomas Jefferson
Eugene Debs
Smedley Butler
John Dean

Give me Liberty
Patrick Henry

That was what I thought at the time and still believe to this day.

Don

"...I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man..."

He knew he was walking toward his death, and yet he went proudly, heroically, and with great dignity.

Through our scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood and yet we have not had the ethical commitment to make of it a brotherhood. But somehow, and in some way, we have got to do this. We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured.

-- Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have a dream:
http://www.uttyler.edu/meidenmuller/mp3clips/AudioSpeeches/mlkihaveadream.mp3
drum major for justice:
http://www.hpol.org/mlk/drummajor-for-justice.ram

more:
http://www.vineland.org/LinksMonth/MLKwebsites.htm

For any who have not heard this voice, ir any whose memory has faded, listen. Download these speeches and share them widely.