MLK Day Special: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words 

That is obvious. You can substitute Ukraine & Israel for Vietnam and nothing has changed.

@@paulwellman1030 US was "Israel" when North America was inhabited by (Palestinians) indigenous people.

Spot on. We were the poster child for genocide. Nothing has changed.@@donHooligan

It is really hard to reason with a bunch of Sheeple. Especially when they are fed a constant diet of propaganda which they eat like candy. @@hoosierbaddy3052

If you use lower case then I reckon us humans don't have much use for reason. Logic is socially unacceptable.

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Let me guess, where have the burning and looting events occur. BLM? ANTIFA? Btw, MLK was a Republican.

Absolutely agree. 💯🇰🇼🍉

Agreed. Thank you Democracy Now for your important work.

Yes, amen!

Amen. Wonderfully said!

@saramill2097~ Better check your sources.. the FBI was responsible for his death.

@saramill2097~ Abernathy.. the FBI agent who witnessed it, no doubt. Again, check your sources.

😂 I bet this is making the right wing bigots mad as hell! They don't want speeches like this remembered! Thank you Amy and crew of D.N. for making one of the most iconic civil rights leaders speeches available to everyone who has forgotten them! 😊 Happy M.L.K. Jr. day! 🎉

Barry Gordy reduced Dr. King's and Malcolm X's speeches to records in the late 1960s. If white America (the West) wanted to know what either said, it wouldn't have been difficult to find out. We, black people, did not hide our history.

True he sounds exactly like the left before and after him. Once in a generation voice for the liberation we will keep demanding until the next generation picks up where we leave off.

Dr King was murdered by a nondescript, largely non-political, petty thug, and man of neither honor nor purpose.

Exactly as he said, it was the deadly force of his own government. This holiday is so wonderful and terrible, inspiring and schizophrenic. The United States has never collectively reckoned with this. Thank you for laying down your life, MLK

And the Democrat party supported slavery. Great job Democrat's!

Wonderful look back at his insightful and significant speeches so applicable to the present, sadly.

Im not thanking any of these pandering news stations. They are profiting off this. Thank you, MLK Jr for standing up for what's right. Even though you saw the cost. Your words are still bringing hope to us.

White America hates to hear that Dr. King was for reparations.

"just stare...and live the nightmare" --Rage Against The Machine

Hearing it for the first time it is CHILLING me to the bone of how relevant and prescient it is today...thank you Democracy Now !!

Are you reminded that the Democrat party supported slavery? Know your history.

THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS MEMORABLE VIDEO, it refreshed my memory; brought tears to my eyes and reminded me of our past and future struggles.... ( a 74 year old baby boomer!)

Oh yes, support the party that actually supported slavery, great job!

Amen.

Oh yet, racial diversity is so wonderful today. Congratulations for supporting the party that supported slavery.

SMH yall are so blind and gullible

​@@WingoTribe704MLK was a cheater, liar, a hypocrite. MLK took advantage of women that looked up to him as a religious preacher. MLK cheated on his thesis(?) in college.

No, you'd would hate him today. Different times for Democrat's, hate is their main cause today.

@@paraglidingnut26 I am neither republican nor democrat. I resent both for what they have done to this country. There must be more intelligent leaders who care more about America than their party and their pockets. We have very smart scientists great artists great writers. We must have better people than the trash in both sides running this country.

no freedom fighters in palestine, only terrorists.

I pray for them too!

MLK is blessed because he was a minister first before being an activist, and a Republican.

@@paraglidingnut26 Interesting, considering he never believed in Jesus. If you only knew the real truth of this pervert.

​@@charless971it doesn't matter, when we know it is DR King is the greatest man to Walk on planet earth 🌎 in the past 200 years second is Malcolm x

That’s a fact they don’t make em like him anymore💯

​@@feddi7693 You can only make YOURSELF that way.

Fred Hampton was 21, and a bit wiser. (some might say)

Now today’s 35-40 year olds are explaining to some blue hair nose piercing on Tick Tock, why they don’t hang out anymore. “…good times create weak men..”

@@matt3024 great point💯🎯👌🏽

MLK was a minister before being an activist. But the Democrat party no longer supports God or the Black community, if you actually knew American history.

The most powerful in America politicians now licks their chops to seek the black church in America it’s not a good thing the american people cannot be without the black church it’s one of our only hopes.

He was a profound practitioner of his own words and exhortations, and still so very much missed.

"We are five days from fundamentally changing the United States of America". Democrat Barry instituted, endorsed, and placed the federal government’s many resources behind the Marxist division of America into oppressed and oppressor groups -- using race and sex as substitutes for workers and producers. The destruction of national unity, the downplaying of merit and equal opportunity (in pursuit of equal outcomes) and the deliberate favoring of our enemies over our allies is now manifest. Almost two decades later, we have seen how these policies have led to wars in the Middle East, the destruction of our educational systems, danger to our lives from poor management, and a substantially weakened military capability. From the personnel and policies that resulted in the wars in the Middle East to the appointment of the antisemitic Claudine Gay, we see Barry’s sissy hand !Q!Q! We turned over our country to a 1/2 black, gay, democrat, muslim who hated the United States of America and did not grow up here. What did you think would happen?

too much yet you can handle it...

Dry bones live ❤!

He thought that speaking for other downtrodden people would be good for everyone. Black people got the government to remove caps on immigration. Assuming that those people would be natural allies. However, once immigrants get here they join team white supremacy. Asians are some of the most rabid racists in America. Black Americans are on their own. If you are not for reparations, you are not for us.

MLK Jr Day is intended to be a day of service to others.

How you know what Dr. King wanted , did you ask him before he was murdered ?

I disagree with you on that..... Without out it his work would be hidden and eventually fade away with the other black history, that's finding it's ways out of schools...

@@lonniefloyd1091 we not talking about his work , we talking about what you said concerning work and the holiday . You don't just have to be at work to carry on Dr. KING work , it's a big world out there for people to be off work and carry out his work without someone saying you need to get back to work . Do you regret that Dr. Martin Luther KING jr. has a day that HONOR him ? Because what you think is narrow minded and benefits only those that make money on you being at work on the clock .

Seriously, for decades Coretta Scott King took petitions with the signatures of mostly black folk to Congress for this recognition. My only regret was that my community wouldn't allow those of us who were teens to sign the petitions. My mother belonged to the NAACP when she was a teen and had been involved in activism since then before there was a "civil rights movement." So I looked upon it as part of our culture.

He absolutely did know, and said so often.

Once the FBI decides you're going to die, you're probably going to die. His bravery and commitment cost him his life, but look what he gave us. That remarkable human will probably haunt us till the end.

He said he would not live past his 40th birthday, he died at 39

The great prophets always know💯

​@@langturner1542He suspected as far back as 1963 that he would die violently. Mrs. King stated in a later interview that when they were watching the TV coverage of the assassination of President Kennedy, he said, "That's exactly how I'm going to die. Because our country is still too sick."

Interesting person thanks for bringing up his name. I will try to read up on him later.

@@feistygheisty1980 He was a very determined person. He went on to establish some monasteries. One is Plum Village, in France. Another is Deer Park, in California. They each have English language YT channels. They are very accessible. He was the genuine article.

He and Abraham Lincoln share that distinction.

MLK DID NOT "GIVE" HIS LIFE! HE WAS "MURDERED" LIKE TOO MANY OTHER OF HIS PEOPLE. MURDERED, FOR ANTI-U.S. FBA/BLACK WS RACISTS WITH OTHERS TO HAVE THEIR GREEDY, WICKED WAYS

Black Africans are still being enslaved by the Arabs in Africa right now get lost

You may hear and read him on the internet easily and whenever you are moved to do so.

@@dolinaj1, I personally like books, I'm old-fashioned like that. But thanks for the suggestion.

you can hear his words all over youtube, just type his name in search bar.

@@goodpanda6901, you can read them in books too.

And relevant to Ukraine as well.

Black Americans have nothing to do with what's going on in the middle east

We all know what he would be saying.

In 1967 he said, "Peace for Israel means security. The world and all people of good will must respect the territorial integrity of Israel."

@@yisraelwoolf2936and his own daughters told the world he would vehemently NOT BE ON ISRAELS SIDE TODAY Stop using my guy for your sick justifications💯

@@yisraelwoolf2936 Too bad Israel does not respect the Palestinians, and treats them as subhuman garbage. The indoctrination of its youth into soldiers primed to murder Palestinians with impunity are shameful and result in the vicious repression of a people who are abused and imprisoned. Free Palestine! Israel has become a dangerous fascist state.

@@yisraelwoolf2936 In that case that makes MLK a stooge. Give me Malcolm X any day.