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08-28-2013, 03:30 PM
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5o years later
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRIF4_WzU1w
Gone too soon. He has not been replaced by any of those who followed. This man had a gift in connecting with people and his words carried a logic and a common sense that is sadly missing today. 
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08-28-2013, 03:55 PM
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Other great speeches.. http://specials.msn.com/a-list/lifes...ous%20speeches
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"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think" - Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (1857-1938) When you are right, no one remembers;when you are wrong, no one forgets. Thought for today.."No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong" - Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, French moralist (1613-1680)
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08-28-2013, 04:23 PM
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how mahalia jackson managed to get mlk off his prepared speech and onto "i have a dream".
an interesting tidbit of history i had no idea about before today. http://www.npr.org/2013/08/28/216141...am-cannot-wait King had enormous respect for Jackson, Jones says. And because of that, the reverend listened to her when she offered him unsolicited advice while King stood at the podium on the day of the march. While he was reading from the prepared text, Jones says, Jackson shouted at King. "This is after she had performed, of course, she's sitting down, and she just shouted at him ... 'Tell 'em about the dream, Martin! Tell 'em about the dream!' " Jackson knew that King had delivered a rousing speech earlier that summer at Detroit's Cobo Hall, bringing the crowd to a feverish pitch when he preached about his dream for a better America. So despite King's prepared script that August day, Jackson encouraged him to bring that moment from Detroit to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. "Now, most people probably didn't have the slightest idea what Mahalia was yelling to Dr. King," Jones says. "What he did upon hearing that, he took the text of the speech — the written text that he was reading — and he moved it to the left side of the lectern [and] grabbed the lectern with both his hands. "And I see this and I turn to the person standing next to me ... and I said, 'These people don't know it, but they're about ready to go to church.' "
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08-28-2013, 06:08 PM
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5o years later
I knew he adlibbed that whole thing, but I never knew the Mahalia Jackson story. Thanks for posting.
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08-28-2013, 06:13 PM
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Yes, nice story thanks...ABC eve news also carried it...
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"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think" - Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (1857-1938) When you are right, no one remembers;when you are wrong, no one forgets. Thought for today.."No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong" - Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, French moralist (1613-1680)
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08-28-2013, 06:42 PM
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Missed Jesse Jackson's speech on African American fathers and mothers being locked up because of race? Or for that matter out-of-wed babies born to 70 year old rich guys?
MLK would likely be crying over our current civil rights leaders rather than celebrating the fact we have evolved to the pinnacle of electing an African American President. Wonder how he'd feel about Jesse saying farewell to his son and daughter-in-law on their way to jail freeing up time for himself to visit his out-of-wedlock daughter?
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