MLK
WPFW is broadcasting King's speeches today. You can listen online. Or read transcripts.
I'm listening right now, and it's very difficult for me to hear it without my feet touching the ground in America. Perhaps I'll go to the Pantheon and stand between the tombs of Voltaire and Rousseau...
Where are King's children? Why hasn't anyone since been able to inspire change? Is it that no one has been up to the job, or is it that not even the mightiest man or woman can change anything because we're not listening?
This is what I'm listening to him say right now, from his speech on Vietnam from April 4, 1967:
"The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit, and if we ignore this sobering reality, we will find ourselves organizing 'clergy and laymen concerned' committees for the next generation.
They will be concerned about Guatemala and Peru. They will be concerned about Thailand and Cambodia. They will be concerned about Mozambique and South Africa.
We will be marching for these and a dozen other names and attending rallies without end unless there is a significant and profound change in American life and policy. So such thoughts take us beyond Vietnam, but not beyond our calling as sons of the living God."
I wish I was in America right now.
We have to change ourselves first before we go changing anything else.
I'm listening right now, and it's very difficult for me to hear it without my feet touching the ground in America. Perhaps I'll go to the Pantheon and stand between the tombs of Voltaire and Rousseau...
Where are King's children? Why hasn't anyone since been able to inspire change? Is it that no one has been up to the job, or is it that not even the mightiest man or woman can change anything because we're not listening?
This is what I'm listening to him say right now, from his speech on Vietnam from April 4, 1967:
"The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit, and if we ignore this sobering reality, we will find ourselves organizing 'clergy and laymen concerned' committees for the next generation.
They will be concerned about Guatemala and Peru. They will be concerned about Thailand and Cambodia. They will be concerned about Mozambique and South Africa.
We will be marching for these and a dozen other names and attending rallies without end unless there is a significant and profound change in American life and policy. So such thoughts take us beyond Vietnam, but not beyond our calling as sons of the living God."
I wish I was in America right now.
We have to change ourselves first before we go changing anything else.
posted by disappearingink at 2:05 PM
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