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And now it pro properly falls the privilege of the president of the Western Christian Leadership Conference and pastor of the Friendship Baptist Church in Pasadena to introduce our distinguished guests from Atlanta. And I call upon now the Reverend Marvin T Robinson to make this presentation, Chairman

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Burke and each of us here assembles today. This is a good time to be alive before our own eyes. History is turning a corner. The Western Christian Leadership conference serves as a backup force to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of which our guest speaker is president.

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We have an office at 2400 Southwester Avenue and those who are dedicated to the continuing struggle for human dignity may cast their tent with us. Our guest speaker is a native of the State of Georgia. Son of a Baptist preacher, received his Bachelor of Arts degree

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from Morehouse College in Atlanta. His bachelor of Divinity degrees from Kroger Universities in Chester Pennsylvania and earned phd degree from Boston University. OK. He distinguished himself in Montgomery, Alabama when he applied the spiritual concept to the struggle of human dignity. The people walked with tired feet

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and rested solo. He told them it was better to walk in dignity than ride in humiliation. Doing another crucial period in the history of mankind. It was Mordecai who said to Esther, who knowest whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this.

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Our guest speaker was sent to earth for such a time as this. At this time. I take the greatest of pleasure to present to you God's peculiar gift to mankind. Martin Luther King, Junior, Father Burke and to all of the clergymen assemble here this afternoon. Ladies

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and gentlemen, I need not pause to say how very delighted I am to have the privilege of coming once more to this great city and this great state. It is always a great pleasure to be in California. I think I can say without fear of successful

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contradiction that the state of California has given more financial support to the Southern Christian leadership conference than any other state in this nation. I can assure you that it is a great privilege to be here on the occasion of this religious witness for human dignity. It's

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marvelous to see so many clergymen here expressing deep concern over the vital issues facing this state and this nation. For as we all know, this issue is a moral issue. And if the problem that we face in race relations is to be solved, it will take

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the active support and the creative witness of the religious people of this nation. And so I'm happy to see this kind of witness and I solicit your continued support as we move on in the days ahead. I'm certainly indebted to my good friend who serves as

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the president of the Western Christian Leadership conference, Marvin Robinson for these kind words of introduction. As I listened to his eloquent and glowing words of introduction, I felt somewhat like the old maid who had never been married. She went to work one day and the lady

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for whom she worked said, Anne, I hear you're going to get married. She said, no, I'm not going to get married. But thank God for the rumor. Well, I know all of these wonderful things that he has said about me can't be true. But thank God

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for the rumor. Victor Hugo said on one occasion that that is nothing more powerful in all the world than an idea whose time has come. And in a real sense, the idea whose time has come today is the idea of freedom and human dignity, whatever men

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are assembled, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, Lagos, Nigeria, New York City, Los Angeles, California, Jackson, Mississippi, or Birmingham, Alabama. The cry is always the same. We want to be free this afternoon. I would like to suggest some of the things that we

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must do. Some of the things that the religious institutions of our nation must do. Some of the things that we as religious people must do in order to move on to the day when the brotherhood of man will be a reality and this idea of freedom

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will be fully achieved. I would like to say first that we must continue to affirm the essential immorality of racial segregation. Racial segregation is not only politically unsound. Racial segregation is not only sociologically untenable, segregation is morally wrong and sinful in reality, segregation is nothing but

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a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity. Segregation is wrong to use the words of the great Jewish philosopher Martin Buber because it substitutes and eye its relationship for the eye of our relationship and relegates persons to the status of things or

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to use the thinking of Saint Thomas. Aquinas. Segregation is wrong because it's based on human laws that are out of harmony with the eternal, with the moral, with the natural laws of the universe. Segregation is an evil system and we must work with determination to get

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rid of it. I saw this a great deal not too long ago, Mrs King and I had journeyed to that great country known as India, as we travel over that vast country. Hundreds and thousands of people followed us everywhere we went. Not because we had anything

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to say so well, but because we were Negroes from the United States and they wanted to hear about the race problem and I never will forget. One afternoon we journeyed down to the southernmost part of India, the state of Kerala, the city of Van. And I

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was to speak in a high school there that afternoon. And most of the students of that school were Children of parents who had been considered across the years as untouchable. Now in India, there had been the caste system and there were those individuals who were members

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of the upper class and there were others, some 80 million who had been considered outcast, they were untouchable, they could not go to certain places. They were denied certain basic opportunities. And so this problem was quite similar to the problem that we face in our own

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nation. And I got up to speak that afternoon. But before speaking, the principal introduced me and he finally came to the point of saying to the students, I now present to you a fella untouchable from the United States of America. And for a moment, I was

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a bit peeved and shocked that I would be referred to as an untouchable. But pretty soon my mind leaped back across the mighty Atlantic. And I started thinking about the fact that in Montgomery, Alabama, where I lived at that time, Negroes were forced to go to

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the back of the bus. And so often they had to stand up over empty seats because those seats were reserved for whites only. I started thinking about the fact that all Negro men and women, but so far was in the downtown section of Montgomery Alabama. When

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the hunger pains came into being, they could not even get a cup of coffee or a hamburger at a lunch counter. I started thinking about the fact. And if I wanted to commune with the great minds of the ages and gain the great insights of the

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years, I could not do it in the public library of Montgomery, Alabama because Negroes could not go there. I started thinking about the fact. Pretty soon my Children would start asking me nagging questions. Why can't I go here, daddy? And I started thinking of the clouds

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of inferiority that would begin to form in their little mental skies. I started thinking about the facts that Negroes could not use recreational facilities in Montgomery, Alabama. And I had to say to myself, I am an untouchable and every Negro born in the United States is

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an untouchable and this is a tragedy and so segregation is evil because it stigmatizes the segregated as untouchables in a caste system. And so we must work hard now and make it clear that we will no longer sell our birthright of freedom for the mess of

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segregated parties. We are through with segregation now, henceforth and forevermore, we must also recognize the urgency of the moment. Every church should do this. Every cathedral should do this. Every synagogue should do this. We don't have long to solve this problem. The hour is late, the

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clock of destiny is ticking out and we must act now before it is too late. Now, I know there are many people who are still saying to the Negro and his allies in the white community, you ought to slow up. You're pushing things too fast. And

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so they are saying, wait and across the years we've heard the word was and so often we have waited, we have adopted policies of gradualism only to discover that gradualism is little more than a do nothing is. And an escapism which ends up in standstill is

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we follow tokenism only to discover 10 years ago, the Supreme Court of our nation after examining the legal body of segregation pronounced it constitutionally there said in substance that the old pre doctrine must go that separate facilities are inherently unequal. And that to segregate a child

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on the basis of his race is to deny that child equal protection of the law that was 10 years ago. But I must remind you that after these 10 years, only about 10% of the Negro students of the South are attending integrated schools. This means that

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we've made only 1% progress a year and we continue this pace. It will take exactly 90 more years to integrate the public schools of the South. And so I say we must recognize that the shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of

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an anemic democracy and the luxury of such slow movement. We must act. Now, I know there are people who are saying to the Negro only time can solve the problem. You've heard that. And so they say just be patient and nice and continue to pray. And

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in 100 to 200 years, the problem will work itself out. Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not criticizing prayer. Prayer has been one of the great resources of my own life. And so often I've had to stand amid the chilly winds of adversity and the surging

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moment of life's restless sea. And at those moments, I have been able to pray and it meant so much. So I'm not criticizing prayer, but I am saying this, that God never intended for prayer to be a substitute for work in intelligence. We must come to

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see that time is neutral. It can be used either constructively or destructively. May I say to you this afternoon, my friends that I'm absolutely convinced that the forces of ill will in our nation have used time much more effectively than the forces of goodwill. I'm absolutely

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convinced that the wallaces and the extreme righteous and the forces committed to negative ends have used time much more effectively in our nation than the forces committed to positive ends. And it may well be that we will have to repent in this generation, not merely for

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the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people who will bomb a church in Birmingham, Alabama, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around saying, wait on time from where we must see that human progress never rolls in

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on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless effort and the persistent works of dedicated individuals who are willing to be coworkers with God. And without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. And so we must help

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time and realize that the time is always right to do right now is the time to make real. The promises of democracy. Now is the time to open the floodgates of opportunity and allow an avalanche of justice to pour upon us. Now is the time to

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get rid of segregation and discrimination. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's Children. This is the challenge of the hour. Now, the next thing that I would like to say is this, it is necessary but all of the forces of

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goodwill, all of the religious forces of our nation to support and develop an action program to get rid of the last vestiges of segregation and discrimination. This problem will not work itself out if it is going to be solved, it means that we must work with

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it day in and day out, hour after hour. Moment after moment, we need an action program. Think of the problem of poverty facing our nation. So many people today find themselves on this lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.

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And if this problem is to be solved, we've got to work at it. We've got to do more than engage in slogans about it. We must develop an action program. Here is a force called automation scrapping. Some 40,000 jobs a week. People are becoming unemployed every

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day and the Negro suffers more than anybody else at this point because of discrimination. The Negro has been denied apprenticeship training because of discrimination. He's had limited educational opportunities in so many sections of the South. And this meant that he was confined to unskilled and semi

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skilled labor. And these are the jobs that are passing away now. And so it means that there must be vigorous retraining programs and it also means that there must be work all over the nation to get rid of discrimination in employment or we are going to

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solve the problem of poverty. We must not have discrimination in employment. And this is a problem all over this country, whether it's in a bank of America or California or whether it's in a bank in Mississippi, it's a problem all over our nation and we have

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to work at it to deal with it. We must also develop action programs to get good legislation through. Now. I know that we hear a lot of things about legislation as has been said so eloquently already, so many people argue that legislation can't solve this problem.

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And we hear this so much now, during the civil rights debate and we hear so much here in the State of California. Now we hear so much about this that you can't legislate morals. You've got to change the heart. Now, suddenly the individual who utters this

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is uttering a half truth. If this problem is going to be solved, ultimately, Negroes and white persons must come together. Not because the law says it, but because it's natural and right. If the problem is to be solved, ultimately, men must be obedient, not only to

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that, which can be enforced by the law, but men must rise to the majestic height of being obedient to the unenforceable. I realize this but we must also bring out the other side has been said already this afternoon. It may be true that you can't legislate

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integration, but you can legislate desegregation. It may be true that morality cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated. It may be true that the law can't change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless. It may be true that the law can make a man

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love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me. And I think that's pretty important also. And so while the law may not change the hearts of men, it does change the habits of men. And when you change the habits of men pretty soon, the hearts

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will be changed, the attitudes will be changed. And so I say that is the need for civil rights legislation now on a national scale and in states all over our nation, I'd like to say something about the national issue first. That is a bill that is

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being debated right now in the Senate of our nation. And I would like to remind you this afternoon, my friends that this, this debate has passed the period and the realm of legitimate debate. It is now a Filibuster clothed in the garment of a gentlemanly debate.

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We must see that a filibuster is taking place in the Senate of our country to so weaken the civil rights bill with crippling amendments that it will have no meaning and it will be tragic indeed if we don't get a strong civil rights bill. And so

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it is necessary for people of goodwill all over this nation to say to senators through letter writing campaigns, through visits to Washington through other campaigns that this bill must pass and it must pass soon. It was on a sweltering afternoon last June, not a young, vigorous,

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intelligent, dedicated president stood before this nation and said in eloquent terms, the issue which we face in civil rights is not merely a political issue. It is at bottom a moral issue. He went on to say it is as old as the scriptures and as modern

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as the constitution. It is a question of whether we will treat our negro brothers as we ourselves would like to be treated. And on the heels of that great speech, he went and presented to Congress, the most comprehensive civil rights package ever presented by any president

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of our great nation. Since that spent that sweltering afternoon, last June, our nation has known a dark day and a dreary night that same president was cut down by an assassin's bullet on Elm street in Dallas, Texas. And I think the greatest tribute that America can

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pay to the late John F. Kennedy is to see that this civil rights bill is passed without crippling amendment. And if this bill does not pass with strength, already ugly sort of racial injustice on the body politic may suddenly turn malignant and our nation may well

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be inflicted with an incurable cancer that will destroy our political and moral health. And so for the health of this nation, it is necessary to pass this bill. Now, in the State of California, you are facing a great issue and you are facing a great choice.

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There is a choice of whether you will continue to move forward the most populous state in this nation, a state that has so often pointed the way here is a question of whether you will continue to go forward or whether you will go backwards. It is

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a question of whether you will continue to travel the high road of justice or whether you will tread the low road of injustice. And that is an attempt that has already been said and I don't need to labor on it to repeal the rum a Fair

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Housing Act. But it is more than that. It is a call for a constitutional amendment that in substance will legalize segregation. This is what it is. And I say to you this afternoon that if this bill is passed, this constitutional amendment comes into being, it will

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be a tragic setback, not only for California, not only for America, but for the cause of justice and for democracy. And it will be one of the great tragedies of the 20th century and all of the segregated conditions that we fought to remove in the South

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will be transferred right here. And so you have a great task ahead and a great responsibility. And I'm so happy to see all of these dedicated religious leaders standing up in such a forthright way, standing up saying that this must be done because they realize that

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this issue in the area of fair housing is also a moral issue and it's so good because we have looked back across the years. And I must honestly admit that in so many instances as a preacher of the gospel, I've been disappointed with the church and

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what it has done in this period of social transition. So often religious institutions have been tail lights instead of headlights, but I'm so happy to see the religious community standing out as a headlight. To see that this job is done and done in a significant way.

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And I hope that as the months unfold that you will continue and suddenly you have my prayers and moral support in this very critical and important period. Along with action on the legislative front, it is also necessary to engage in direct action in order to dramatize

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the injustices and the indignities that we still face as a result of the continued existence of segregation. And so I am not one to say that the day for demonstrations is over, that is still a need in so many instances when negotiations fall through to engage

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in demonstrations in order to expose the injustices of the system of racial segregation. And I have no apology for this. It's a part of the sacred tradition of our nation to be able to peacefully assemble and able to engage in protest. This is a part of

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the first amendment of our constitution and one of the greatness of our great points of our nation is the fact that we have the right to protest for right. And so we must engage in direct action in many instances. But I always make it clear that

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this direct action must be nonviolent, direct action, demonstrations, demonstrations that they are to be defective, must be nonviolent and peaceful demonstrations. And if they are, they do more to arouse the conscience of the opposition. And I think it is so important to maintain this nonviolent stand.

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I still believe that nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppress people in their struggle for freedom and justice. There are cries here and there urging the Negro to turn to violence. I will not submit to those voices. But I know that violence creates

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many more social problems than it solves. And if the Negro succumbs to the temptation of using violence in his struggles, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness. And our chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of

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meaningless chaos. Fortunately, that is another way way as old as the insights of Jesus of Nazareth and as modern as the techniques of Mohandas K Gandhi. That is another way way as old as Jesus saying, turn the other cheek. He realized in saying this, the turning

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the other cheek does not necessarily mean that you won't have to suffer a little bit. It doesn't necessarily mean that you won't get scarred up a little bit at times. But he was saying in substance that it is better to go through life with a scarred

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up body than a scarred up soul. That is another way. And I believe that is how in this way, I watched it in Birmingham, Alabama and I saw a man by the name of Bull Connor. You read about him. Bull Connor was always happy when some

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of the Negro Spectators on the sidelines started throwing rocks and throwing bottles and engaging in violence. He was happy then he wanted this. But when Bill Connor had to face hundreds and thousands of negroes marching the streets of Birmingham, Alabama. And he started getting his dogs

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out in his power for water hoses and they kept marching singing, ain't gonna let nobody turn me around. And then as he would order his policemen with all of the brutality that they could muster to throw them in the paddy wagons. And as they went in

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there, they were still singing, woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom. And then as the paddy wagons moved off, taking them to jail, they were still singing with humble smiles on their faces over my head. I see freedom in the air and bull

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Connor couldn't understand this. And that is something within this weapon that disarms the opponent. It exposes his moral defenses, it weakens his morale. And at the same time, it works on his conscience and he does not know what to do if he doesn't beat you. Wonderful.

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If he beats you, you develop the quiet courage of accepting goals without retaliating. If he doesn't put you in jail. Wonderful. Nobody within a sense loves to go to jail. But if he puts you in jail, you go in that jail and transform it from a

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dungeon of shame to a haven of freedom and human dignity. Even if he tries to kill you, even if he tries to kill you, you develop the conviction that there are some things so dear, something so precious, something so eternally true that they are worth dying

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for. And if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he didn't fit to live. This is what it says. And so that is power here and it says to us that we need not engage in hate campaigns somewhere We must see that

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hate is as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated psychiatrists are telling us now that many of the strange things that happen in the subconscious, many of the inner conflicts are rooted in hate and they are saying love or perish. Long time ago,

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Jesus said love your enemies, bless them, that curse you pray for them that despite use you. And so by standing up with determination and yet having love in our hearts, I believe we can go on to that bright day. I know the temptation of those of

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us who have faced so many dark nights, we've been trampled over so long by the iron feet of oppression. We've seen brutality and lynching, mobs with our own eyes. We are still the last h in the first five, we are still at the bottom of the

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economic ladder. We are still haunted day in and day out by the fact that we are Negroes and we are constantly standing at tiptoe stand not knowing what to expect next. And I know the temptations that is always the temptation that we will become bitter in

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the process. But I plead with you this evening, in spite of these conditions, we must not become bitter. We must continue to have our discontent. Yes, our resentment, our legitimate discontent. We must continue to stand up against this system and yet maintain a healthy attitude in

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the process. And I believe if we will do this, we will be able to create right here a better nation, a better day and the great situation for all of God's Children. And may I say that I still have faith in the future? I haven't loved

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hope. I still have faith in America. I know that that is still difficult periods ahead before the victory for justice is won some more. Maybe we'll have to get scarred up a bit before the victory for brotherhood is one some more will be called bad names,

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misunderstood comrades and communists. Simply because they believe in the brotherhood of man before the victor was won. Maybe somebody else like Medgar evers will have to face physical debt. But if physical debt is the price that some must pay to free that Children from a prominent

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psychological death, then nothing can be more redemptive before the victory is won. There may be some more suffering, but we will get to that better day because they are of the moral universe is long. But it bends toward justice. There will be a better day because

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truth crushed to earth will rise again. There will be a better day because Carlyle is right. No lie can live forever. Centuries ago, Jeremiah, the prophet raised the great question. He looked out and noticed life. You notice the ambiguities of history. The right is often suffering

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and evil, often prospering. He cried out. Is there no bomb in Gard? Is there no position there? This was a great question from a great prophet sent to later. Our slave for parents came along. They too notice the inequities and the injustices of life. They had

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nothing to look forward to morning after morning. But the sizzling heat, the rawhide whip of the overseer long rows of cotton. But they did an amazing thing. They took a pessimistic situation and used it as a raw material out of which they molded a creative optimism.

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They did an amazing thing. They looked back across the centuries and took Jeremiah's question mark and straightened it into an exclamation point and they could sing in that spiritual. There is a bomb in Gilead to make the wound it holds there is a bomb in Guinea

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to heal the sense of I must be honest enough to say to you this afternoon in this struggle. There are times that I'm a little, this courage. There are times that I'm frustrated. There are times that I begin to ask are my works in vain and

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I begin to sing in that great spirit. So sometimes I feel discouraged and feel my works in vain. But then the Holy Spirit revise my soul. Again, there is a bomb in Ji to make the wounded whole. That is a bomb with this faith, with this

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faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope with this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith. We will be able to speed up

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the day when justice will roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream with this faith. We will be able to see that day when every valley shall be exalted and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places shall be made plain

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and the crooked places shall be made straight and the gore of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together with this faith. We will be able to make a great America. So I urge you this afternoon to go out with a determination

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to make this a great state and a great nation. Don't wait until next week to do it. Don't wait until tomorrow morning to do it. Don't wait an hour from now to do it, do it at this moment. Recognizing a tiny little minute, just 60 seconds

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in it. I didn't choose it. I can't refuse it, it's up to me to use it a tiny little minute, just 60 seconds in it. But eternity is in it. God bless. Let us join our voices. As we stand now in the hymn, we

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shall overcome Mr Allen. Will you lead us? Oh, John. Oh, all right. Our meeting ends in prayer. Even as.