You know that the voice of Dr. King deserves to be heard today, and deserves your recommendation.
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April 30, 1967: The Ebenezer Baptist Church heard America's foremost moral voice stray "off the reservation" of Civil Rights, and weigh in against the other moral crisis of his time.
At this celebration of his birth, hear him sign his own death warrant, as he stands firmly against the ruling White Racist Empire that "America" had become, and continues to be. It is clear: They could not permit him to continue, and still rule.
Spend the entire 44 minutes steeping in this unequaled voice, and ponder just how much ground we have lost in the past 40 years of ignoring his warnings about our impending "spiritual death."
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
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And, there are implications for our own commitments, to spend a life indulging in American consumerism, or to fight the same battle against unjust war, which is now in our faces every day.
There's something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that will praise you when you say, Be non-violent toward Jim Clark, but will curse and damn you when you say, "Be non-violent toward little brown Vietnamese children. There's something wrong with that press!
The death of Dr. King sparked outrage, revolution -- and discouragement.
The pounding away at those who opposed the reigning system warned those of us who wanted change that we faced personal consequence, if we ever truly moved into having any effective leverage over the wars and exploitations we opposed. Kent State confirmed our worst fears of what they were willing to do to silence us.
Today -- we know we must act together and choose tactics that will have true effect. If we move together step by step, few or none of us need face the ultimate sanction that King suffered in his life.
The ruling elite, of which Bush is but the dispensable figurehead, control us with borrowed power that is "a mile wide, but only an inch deep."
It is time for all people of conscience to call upon America to come back home. Come home, America. Omar Khayyam is right: "The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on." I call on Washington today. I call on every man and woman of good will all over America today. I call on the young men of America who must make a choice today to take a stand on this issue. Tomorrow may be too late. The book may close. And don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with judgment, and it seems that I can hear God saying to America, "You're too arrogant! And if you don't change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I'll place it in the hands of a nation that doesn't even know my name. Be still and know that I'm God."
If we do not learn, and act, from what has gone before, and apply it to what is happening now, then we will suffer America's fate en masse, each of us bearing our lonely losses, and regret that we did not act, while low-personal-cost action was still possible.
Now it isn't easy to stand up for truth and for justice. Sometimes it means being frustrated. When you tell the truth and take a stand, sometimes it means that you will walk the streets with a burdened heart. Sometimes it means losing a job...means being abused and scorned. It may mean having a seven, eight year old child asking a daddy, "Why do you have to go to jail so much?"
Dr. King began to call us to a Nonviolent Revolution. Though delayed, that revolution is as necessary today as it was forty years ago. It grows out of the natural desire of humans to lead decent lives, enjoying the fruits of their own labors, and it is embodied in the promise that the United States of America was made to them.
It only remains for each of us to make our best contribution, as we are given the ability and called to do.
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And nations will not rise up against nations, neither shall they study war anymore. And I don't know about you, I ain't gonna study war no more.