And so as we go away this afternoon, let us go away more than ever before committed to this struggle and committed to nonviolence. The sermons and speeches of Martin Luther King Jr., comprise an extensive catalog of American writing and oratory – some of which are internationally well-known, while others remain unheralded and await rediscovery.. Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent African-American clergyman, a leader in the civil rights movement and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The fact is that the state of California voted a fair housing bill out of existence before anybody shouted black power or before anybody rioted in Watts. (Yes, sir). Yet that scaffold sways the future. Martin Luther King, Jr.: (05:32) It is said on the Statue of Liberty that America is a home of exiles. Martin Luther King, Jr.: (23:54) And at that same period, America was giving millions of acres of land in the West and the Midwest, which meant that America was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic flower that would make it possible to grow and develop, and refused to give that economic flower to its black peasants, so to speak. Toward the end of the Reconstruction era, something very significant happened. In a sense, this was a struggle for decency. We have walked through desolate valleys and across the trying hills. The job ahead must be massive and positive. This is only inviting social disaster. (Yes, sir) The battle is in our hands. There are those, and they’re often sincere people, that will say to Negros and their allies in the white community, that we should slow up and just be nice and patient and continue to pray. Somebody’s asking, "When will wounded justice, lying prostrate on the streets of Selma and Birmingham and communities all over the South, be lifted from this dust of shame to reign supreme among the children of men?" We must develop massive action programs all over the United States of America, in order to deal with the problems that I have mentioned. Our whole campaign in Alabama has been centered around the right to vote. (Yes, sir) Some now long-gone black bard bequeathed to posterity these words in ungrammatical form, (Yes, sir) yet with emphatic pertinence for all of us today. And so I realize that if we are to have a truly integrated society, men and women will have to rise to the majestic heights of being obedient to the unenforceable. Let us therefore continue our triumphant march (Uh huh) to the realization of the American dream. And because the Negro is his brother. This list is organized by presenter name and then speech topic. It is based, rather, on an ontological affirmation. We shall overcome because Carlisle is right. News and Wmld Report, 3 August 1956, pp. It’s the news, without the news. I went on to remind him that no other racial group has been a slave on American soil. After Montgomery’s, heroic confrontations loomed up in Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, and elsewhere. (Speak, Doctor). A federal law declaring discrimination in housing unconstitutional. Martin Luther King, Jr.: (31:22) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, speech “The Other America” delivered on April 14, 1967, at Stanford University; license granted by Intellectual Properties Management, Atlanta, Ga., as … I am convinced that we still need strong civil rights legislation. The battle is in our hands. Now, let me say, finally, that we have difficult days ahead. (Yes, sir), These words I have given you just as they were given us by the unknown, long-dead, dark-skinned originator. And I said to him that it does not help the Negro, it only deepens his frustration, for unfeeling, insensitive people to say to him that other ethnic groups who migrated, are immigrants to this country that’s 100 years ago or so, have gotten beyond him, and he came here some 344 years ago. And so while the law may not change the hearts of men, it can and it does change the habits of men. Martin Luther King, Jr.: (34:38) Read the speech transcript here. 4. Glory, hallelujah! And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality, and humanity. Martin Luther King, Jr.: (22:56) (Yes, sir) The beating and killing of our clergymen and young people will not divert us. Because it’s right. That is if we are to go on in the days ahead and make true brotherhood a reality, it is necessary for us to realize, more than ever before, that the destinies of the Negro and the white man are tied together. The racists still don’t realize this, but it is a fact now that Negros and whites are tied together, and we need each other. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The Danger of a … Somehow, I maintain hope in spite of hope, and I’ve talked about the difficulties and how hard the problems will be, as we tackle them. (Yes, sir) That’s what happened when the Negro and white masses of the South threatened to unite and build a great society: a society of justice where none would pray upon the weakness of others; a society of plenty where greed and poverty would be done away; a society of brotherhood where every man would respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Two speeches in April 1967, ten days apart, show MLK differentiating clearly between the violence of the state, the police, and white supremacy and the violence of the oppressed. (Yes, sir) I like that old Negro spiritual, (Yes, sir) "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho." (Yes, sir), "‘Cause the battle am in my hand." But over and over again, at the same time, it made certain backwards steps. (Yes, sir) Like an idea whose time has come, (Yes, sir) not even the marching of mighty armies can halt us. It does not recognize the need of sharing that power with black aspirations for freedom and justice. The nation heralded a new day of concern for the poor, for the poverty-stricken, for the disadvantaged, and brought into being a poverty bill. Martin Luther King, Jr.: (26:23) The statistics can be gotten because they are still somehow in the labor market. And so there can be no separate black path to power and fulfillment that does not intersect white routes. Negroes took it and carried it across the South in epic battles (Yes, sir. (Yes, sir), Thus, the threat of the free exercise of the ballot by the Negro and the white masses alike (Uh huh) resulted in the establishment of a segregated society. In focusing the attention of the nation and the world today on the flagrant denial of the right to vote, we are exposing the very origin, the root cause, of racial segregation in the Southland. And it is tragic, indeed, that Congress, last year, allowed this bill to die. Martin Luther King, Jr.: (08:23) Martin Luther King, Jr.: (38:12) Pretty soon, the hearts will be changed. That will be a great day. Therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls. (Uh huh). It is the affirmation that the very being of a people is inferior. And as the noted historian, C. Vann Woodward, in his book, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, clearly points out, the segregation of the races was really a political stratagem employed by the emerging Bourbon interests in the South to keep the southern masses divided and southern labor the cheapest in the land. We see the fact that the Negro economically is facing a Depression in his everyday life that is more staggering than the Depression of the ’30s. Martin Luther King, Jr.: (29:45) I can see no more dangerous trend in our country, than the constant developing of predominantly Negro-central cities, ringed by white suburbs. It’s the notion that legislation can’t solve the problem, it can’t do anything in this area. (Listen to him) That is what was known as the Populist Movement. In this America, millions of people find themselves living in rat-infested, vermin-filled slums. We are seeking to make America one nation, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. TEXT PERMISSIONS Unless otherwise noted, the spoken text is taken from the Rev. And as we look at these problems, we see them growing and developing every day. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And I’m convinced that many of the very people who supported us in the struggle in the South are not willing to go all the way now. And the fact is that millions of Negros, as a result of centuries of denial and neglect, have been left bootless. But there are hundreds of thousands of Negros who have given up. Martin Luther King, Jr.: (22:03) N. 1996, speech mlk vietnam o dowd. And he goes on toward the end to say any man’s death diminishes me because I’m involved in mankind. What I’m trying to get across is that our nation has constantly taken a positive step forward on the question of racial justice and racial equality. After the Selma Movement in 1965, we were able to get a voting rights bill. Yes, sir) to turn the whole nation to a new course. If the worst in American life lurked in its dark streets, the best of American instincts arose passionately from across the nation to overcome it. (Yes, sir) Just ten years ago, in this very city, a new philosophy was born of the Negro struggle. On 14 April 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr., made his second visit to Stanford's Memorial Auditorium. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. But I haven’t despair. Above all, it is destroying human lives, destroying the lives of thousands of the young, promising men of our nation. Is to deal with this problem, to deal with this problem of the two Americas. (Yes, sir) We are moving to the land of freedom. Now, there’s another notion that gets out. It’s more difficult today because we are struggling now for genuine equality, and it’s much easier to integrate a lunch counter than it is to guarantee a livable income and a good, solid job. Today, all of our cities confront huge problems. (That’s right). Martin Luther King, Jr.: (33:05) It seems to me that the civil rights movement must now begin to organize for the guaranteed annual income, begin to organize people all over our country and mobilize forces, so that we can bring to the attention of our nation, this need and this something which I believe will go a long, long way toward dealing with the Negro’s economic problem and the economic problem with many other poor people confronting our nation. Why don’t you lift yourselves by your own bootstraps? This other America has a daily ugliness about it that constantly transforms the buoyancy of hope into the fatigue of despair. Mr. Bell, and members of the faculty and members of the student body of this great institution of learning, ladies and gentlemen. The Other America Speech Transcript – Martin Luther King Jr. Congressional Testimony & Hearing Transcripts. He went on to say that it was freedom without bread to eat, freedom without land to cultivate. To this list may be added the names of all those (Yes) who have fought and, yes, died in the nonviolent army of our day: Medgar Evers, (Speak) three civil rights workers in Mississippi last summer, (Uh huh) William Moore, as has already been mentioned, (Yes, sir) the Reverend James Reeb, (Yes, sir) Jimmy Lee Jackson, (Yes, sir) and four little girls in the church of God in Birmingham on Sunday morning. They told us we wouldn’t get here. National gross product of America will rise to the astounding figure of some 780 billion dollars this year. And in a sense, this America is overflowing with the miracle of prosperity and the honey of opportunity. They’ve lost hope. And we hear this over and over again. And all of this, and all of these things, tell us that America has been back lashing on the whole question of basic constitutional and God-given rights for Negros and other disadvantaged groups for more than 300 years. (Speak) It was normalcy in Birmingham (Yes) that led to the murder on Sunday morning of four beautiful, unoffending, innocent girls. And this is why Frederick Douglass could say that emancipation for the Negro was freedom to hunger, freedom to the winds and rains of heaven, freedom without roofs to cover their heads. Man was on the plane with me some weeks ago, and he came and talked with me, and he said, “The problem, Dr. King, that I see with what you all are doing is that every time I see you and other Negros, you are protesting. And so as a result of all of this, we see many problems existing today that are growing more difficult. American Prophet: Online Course Companion, Freedom's Ring: King's "I Have a Dream" Speech. Martin Luther King, Jr.: (28:36) The transcript of this speech can be found at: San Francisco BayView My introduction to King’s, The Other America, for the San Francisco BayView: The Jan. 15 birthday of the Rev. And so I plead with you this afternoon as we go ahead: remain committed to nonviolence. Famous Speeches and Great Talks. (Yes, sir), Through the blood of the slaughtered. A ghetto of race, a ghetto of poverty, ghetto-. Now, in order to develop these massive action programs, we’ve got to get rid of one or two false notions that continue to exist in our society. Posted By: C H on January 18, 2011. Let us march on ballot boxes (Let us march) until we send to our city councils (Yes, sir), state legislatures, (Yes, sir) and the United States Congress, (Yes, sir) men who will not fear to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with thy God. Martin Luther King, Jr.: (41:27) I must admit to you that there are still some difficult days ahead. Nobody can doubt the need, if he thinks about the fact that since 1963, some 58 Negros and white civil rights workers have been brutally murdered in the state of Mississippi alone, and not a single person has been convicted for these dastardly crimes. But I have a message that I would like to leave with Alabama this evening. (Yes, sir) The battle is in our hands in Mississippi and Alabama and all over the United States. I have a dream today! It was freedom and famine at the same time, but it does not stop there. And I would be the first to say that there are all too many who are still guided by the racist ethos. (Yes, sir) He gave him Jim Crow. We will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nations into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. It was normalcy on Highway 80 (Yes, sir) that led state troopers to use tear gas and horses and billy clubs against unarmed human beings who were simply marching for justice. Long before the TED talk, Dr. King was sharing big powerful talks of ideas and inspiration. And those who project this argument, contend that you’ve got to change the heart, and that you can’t change the heart through legislation. Not long, (All right. In the glow of the lamplight on my desk a few nights ago, I gazed again upon the wondrous sign of our times, full of hope and promise of the future. It is normalcy all over our country (Yes, sir) which leaves the Negro perishing on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of vast ocean of material prosperity. (Yes, sir), Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; (Yes, sir), He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; (Yes), He has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword; (Yes, sir), He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; (Speak, sir), He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat. But it doesn’t take us long to realize that America has been the home of its white exiles from Europe, but it has not evinced the same kind of maternal care and concern for its black exiles from Africa. Statistics would say, from the Labor Department, that among Negros, it’s about 8.4%. (Yes, sir). Through their control of mass media, they revised the doctrine of white supremacy. In anticipation of Martin Luther King, Jr Day I found that his words felt more powerful than any I could say about him or his work--so I decided to share those instead. Martin Luther King, Jr.: (37:18) And so today, we are struggling for something which says we demand genuine equality. It is much easier to integrate a public park than it is to make genuine quality integrated education a reality. But these are the persons who are in the labor market, who still go to employment agencies to seek jobs, and so they can be calculated. And the theory that another group or another race is totally depraved, innately impure, and innately inferior. In transportation within cities, we often had to stand over empty seats because sections were reserved for whites only. Probably the largest group in this other America, in proportion to its size and the population is the American Negro. One is the notion that only time can solve the problem of racial injustice. But we must keep going. Integration must be seen also in political terms, where there is shared power, and where black men and white men share power together, to build a new and a great nation. (Yes, sir) The Bible tells us that the mighty men of Joshua merely walked about the walled city of Jericho (Yes) and the barriers to freedom came tumbling down. Nor do they encounter. — Stanford Education (@StanfordEd) November 16, 2020. Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding. And there were those who said that we would get here only over their dead bodies, (Well. (Yes, sir), My people, my people, listen. (Yes, sir. President Johnson rightly praised the courage of the Negro for awakening the conscience of the nation. And the struggle was to deal with these problems. And I came to see that so many people who supported morally and even financially what we were doing in Birmingham and Selma were really outraged against the extremist behavior of Bull Connor and Jim Clark toward Negros, rather than believing in genuine equality for Negros. Fought about a decade or maybe 12 years. Speak) There never was a moment in American history (Yes, sir) more honorable and more inspiring than the pilgrimage of clergymen and laymen of every race and faith pouring into Selma to face danger (Yes) at the side of its embattled Negroes. Click the links below to jump to a specific speech. Racial segregation as a way of life did not come about as a natural result of hatred between the races immediately after the Civil War. (Uh huh) And when his undernourished children cried out for the necessities that his low wages could not provide, he showed them the Jim Crow signs on the buses and in the stores, on the streets and in the public buildings. But today, the unemployment rate among Negros is twice that of whites. And so there is a need with the whole question of the administration of justice. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again. It’s around everywhere. It is a myth of the superior and the inferior race. And I have heard this over and over again. About OKRA. Now, let me say that the struggle for our civil rights and the struggle to make these two Americas one America is much more difficult today than it was five, 10 years ago. The sermons and speeches of Martin Luther King Jr., comprise an extensive catalog of American writing and oratory – some of which are internationally well-known, while others remain unheralded, and some await re-discovery.. Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent African-American clergyman, a civil rights leader, and a Nobel laureate. (No) There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. (Yes, sir) We are on the move now. In 1967, King delivered a speech at Stanford University on "The Other America." Truth forever on the scaffold wronged, forever on the throne. Let me say, as I’ve always said, and I will always continue to say, that riots are socially destructive and self-defeating. Martin Luther King Jr on August 28, 1963, delivered the iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in front of over 250,000 supporters gathered at Lincoln Memorial, the speech was ranked the best American speech of 20th century in a 1999 poll. He said: That with tears hath been watered. And this is a great tragedy of it. Dr. Martin Luther King gave his “The Other America” speech to supporters participating in a celebratory “Salute to Freedom,” organized by the Local 1199 in New York City. The Negro needs the white man to save him from his fears, the white man needs the Negro to save him from his guilt. For nearly two years Bob Fitch was staff photographer for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), of which Martin Luther King Jr. was president. I’m still convinced that nonviolence is the most potent weapons available to oppress people in their struggle for freedom and justice. And I’m absolutely convinced that the forces of ill will in our nation, the extreme rightists in our nation, have often used time much more effectively than the forces of goodwill, and it may well be that we will have to repent in this generation, not merely for the vitriolic words of the bad people and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people, who sit around and say, wait on time. Martin Luther King, Jr.: (05:50) Outside esl and eap writing rarely focus on the basis for spoken professional english, 2. In 1964, the nation passed a weaker civil rights bill, and even to this day, that bill has not been totally enforced in all of its dimensions. Now, let me go on to say that, if we are to deal with all of the problems that I’ve talked about, that we are to bring America to the point that we have one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all, there are certain things that we must do. This is something that truth impels all men of goodwill to admit. (Yes, sir), On our part we must pay our profound respects to the white Americans who cherish their democratic traditions over the ugly customs and privileges of generations and come forth boldly to join hands with us. There are those who would estimate that these persons who are called the discouraged persons would be 6% or 7% in the Negro community. Before the beautiful words of the Star Spangled Banner were written, we were here. When that bill died in Congress, a bit of democracy died, a bit of our commitment to justice died. In 1875, the nation passed a civil rights bill and refused to enforce it. Let us therefore continue our triumphant march (Uh huh) to the realization of the American dream. James Weldon Johnson put it eloquently. White politicians in suburbs talk eloquently against open housing, and in the same breath, contend that they are not racist. King’s typed version appeared as “Alabama’s Bus Boycott: What It’s All About,” US. It’s still deeply rooted in the North, and it’s still deeply rooted in the South. (Stanford University - April 14, 1967) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivering "The Other America" speech to the student body of Stanford University. The American Negro finds himself living in a triple ghetto. Hitler was a sick and tragic man who carried racism to its logical conclusion, and he ended up leading a nation to the point of killing about six million Jews. It’s much easier to guarantee the right to vote than it is to guarantee the right to live in sanitary, decent housing conditions. 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