Monday, January 16, 2012

Jason Upton - Never Alone Martin (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)

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This is an amazing touching song about Martin Luther King Jr. Not the civil rights leader rather the man of Faith that he was. 

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and family
Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. He was born January 15, 1929.
If he lived, he would have turned 79 years old.
In the early 1960s, Dr. King focused his challenge on legalized racial discrimination in the South where police dogs and bullwhips and cattle prods were used against Southern blacks seeking the right to vote or to eat at a public lunch counter.
After passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Dr. King began challenging the nation’s fundamental priorities.
He maintained that civil rights laws were empty without “human rights”—including economic rights.
Noting that a majority of Americans below the poverty line were white, Dr. King developed a class perspective.
He decried the huge income gaps between rich and poor, and called for “radical changes in the structure of our society” to redistribute wealth and power.
By 1967, Dr. King had also become the country’s most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic.
In his “Beyond Vietnam” speech delivered at New York’s Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 — a year to the day before he was murdered — Dr. King called the United States “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.”
Time magazine called the speech “demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi,” and the Washington Post declared that Dr. King had “diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people.”
We turn now to that speech that Dr. King gave in April 1967.
For more of Dr. King’s speeches check: Pacifica Radio Archives
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