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MLK Day, Steve's Birthday, President Obama, Congressman John Lewis and more. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Today's show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time y'all
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Y'all back a suit, looking back to back,
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  Speaker 1: giving them like the milling bus things and it's not good.
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  Speaker 1: Steve Hartley, I don't join Jo. You gotta use that
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  Speaker 1: turn out. You got to turn to turn them out. Love,
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  Speaker 1: got to turn out to turn the water the water. Come,
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  Speaker 1: come on your baby, I shall will. Good morning everybody
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  Speaker 1: you are listening to the voice, Come on dig me now.
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  Speaker 1: One and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Why
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  Speaker 1: Because God, God is in the blessing business. If you
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  Speaker 1: go get in line, he has something for you. God
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  Speaker 1: is amazing. The plan he actually has for you is
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  Speaker 1: so far greater than you can possibly imagine. It's really
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  Speaker 1: mind blowing. And as I look back on where He's
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  Speaker 1: brought me from and what he's currently doing for me,
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  Speaker 1: all I can do is tell you is God. That's
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  Speaker 1: all I can tell you, Because I tell you right now,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't foresee it. You know. It oftentimes amazes me
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  Speaker 1: when I listened to celebrities when they interview how they say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I always always thought that this would happen
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  Speaker 1: for me, and I just you know it could be true,
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  Speaker 1: but for me, it's not that way at all. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't imagine it this way. I had a dream of
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  Speaker 1: becoming famous one day, but I had no idea would
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  Speaker 1: it would ever get to this. It was a very
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  Speaker 1: very simple desire for fame. That is no way I
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  Speaker 1: could have seen all this. There is no way I
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  Speaker 1: am telling you this is. This has been nothing for
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  Speaker 1: me but the grace of God, and all the times
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  Speaker 1: I failed, every time I had fallen, he picked me up,
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  Speaker 1: He dusted me off, and he kept me moving. It
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  Speaker 1: has been an amazing thing to watch God do what
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  Speaker 1: he do. As I look back on my history and
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  Speaker 1: you sometimes look back on your history, you've got to see, man, wow,
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  Speaker 1: what God has done for you and what He's brought
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  Speaker 1: you through to enable you to be you are. It
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  Speaker 1: is amazing because really, I mean really real talk. Now,
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  Speaker 1: had he allowed all of the decisions I had made
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  Speaker 1: to play all the way out, I can assure you
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be here today. But God, through this grace
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  Speaker 1: and mercy, who had a plan for me, who was
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  Speaker 1: just waiting on me to come get in line, and
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  Speaker 1: then he was gonna start empty, and now he was
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  Speaker 1: gonna start shipping out all the boxes in heaven with
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  Speaker 1: my name on it, and man, and what a great
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  Speaker 1: god he is, what a great god he is, And
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  Speaker 1: you have boxes of blessings with your name on it
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  Speaker 1: that he is waiting to ship. But he needs you
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  Speaker 1: to go down there and get in line. That's what
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  Speaker 1: it is. It is not that he has more boxes
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  Speaker 1: for other people than he do you. He got boxes
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  Speaker 1: with your name on it who have never been shipped.
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  Speaker 1: Because you will not get in line to go get him.
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  Speaker 1: You will not ask God for him, you will not
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  Speaker 1: do the things necessary to attain them. We stop our
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  Speaker 1: own blessings. Man, I have been the biggest stopper of
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  Speaker 1: my blessings than anybody else. I can't really get mad
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  Speaker 1: at nobody. I got nobody to blame for my existence
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  Speaker 1: but me. But then at the same time, I can't
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  Speaker 1: take credit for this. I really really can't. I kid
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  Speaker 1: you not. I cannot take credit for it. And if
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  Speaker 1: you ever see me taking credit for it, tap me
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  Speaker 1: on the shoulder, say Steve, pull up. Remember you said
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  Speaker 1: this ain't about you. If you catch me taking too
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  Speaker 1: much credit, you have my permission to stop me. Now here.
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  Speaker 1: It is the deal, though, and this is what I
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  Speaker 1: want to get through to you today. Moving forward while
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  Speaker 1: under attack, new level, new devil. You know, every time
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  Speaker 1: you go somewhere, every time you try to progress, every
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  Speaker 1: time you make a decision to be better, to do better,
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be a confrontation you're going to have
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  Speaker 1: because it is the enemy's job to not see you
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  Speaker 1: go forward, do better. Won't more behave yourself. There is
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  Speaker 1: a force that is operative out there that has people
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  Speaker 1: working on his behalf twenty four seven. You got a computer,
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  Speaker 1: go read a blog. Just go read a blog. They're
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  Speaker 1: busy man, not knowing, but just saying evil stuff constantly.
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  Speaker 1: That's a job. Well, here's what happens. I you. We
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  Speaker 1: have to always keep moving forward while we're under attack,
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  Speaker 1: because the attack is going to always come. If you
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  Speaker 1: allow the attackers to stop you, you will lose that
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  Speaker 1: particular battle. And you cannot afford this. You know. My
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  Speaker 1: father used to say, be careful when you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: kick someone body off the ladder, because you got to
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  Speaker 1: take your foot off too, and you might slip. And
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  Speaker 1: so when people are taking their feet off the ladder,
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  Speaker 1: most something more. The majority the may't even own a ladder.
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  Speaker 1: They just at the bottom throwing stuff up at you.
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  Speaker 1: They are just shaking your ladder. They ain't even they
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  Speaker 1: ain't even on your level. Really tell you the truth,
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  Speaker 1: they really not. You have moved on far beyond them, spiritually, physically, everything,
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  Speaker 1: but they are still shaking your ladder and attacking you.
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  Speaker 1: Keep moving forward while under attack, because the attacks are
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  Speaker 1: going to come. If you take the time to stop
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  Speaker 1: and address it, you are impeding your own progress. This
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  Speaker 1: is very important to understand. Go on about your business
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  Speaker 1: and remember Steve Harvey and remember those of you out there.
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  Speaker 1: There is a Bible verse that helps me out every time.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know why. I got it on six
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  Speaker 1: different plaques sitting all around my offices. Everywhere I go,
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  Speaker 1: I can read it Isaiah fifty seventeen. No weapon formed
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  Speaker 1: against me. Sheall prosper that because this is that he
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  Speaker 1: will put me under his wings or protection. And this
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  Speaker 1: is my inheritance as a servant of the Lord period.
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  Speaker 1: I'm his boy, he my man, so so did so
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  Speaker 1: when you come in for me, I have to just
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  Speaker 1: rest on that Lord right there, that he got it
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  Speaker 1: that no weapon formed against me, She'll prosper. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: like you sometimes, you know, we know better, but sometimes
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  Speaker 1: we don't do better. Man, let them say what they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna say. When they get through saying it, when they
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  Speaker 1: get through writing it, when they get through talking about you,
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  Speaker 1: when they get through lyne about you. Guess what they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to do. They're gonna have to step back
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  Speaker 1: and watch your rise. They're gonna have to kick back
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  Speaker 1: and watch what God got for you, because nothing God
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  Speaker 1: got for you. Can't nobody stop it. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: what they do. Keep moving forward while under attack. You know,
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  Speaker 1: somebody tell you something. Minister Lewis fair Khan taught me
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  Speaker 1: something very important one day. He says, Steve, remember this.
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  Speaker 1: He said. It is a common thing for a dog
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  Speaker 1: to bark up at the moon. But if the moon
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  Speaker 1: balks back at the dog, the dog becomes famous. You
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  Speaker 1: feel me, the moon was talking to you. What did you?
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  Speaker 1: How did the moon stop and talk to you? Don't
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  Speaker 1: give them that. Let the dog bark up at the moon.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you be up there? You go where God got
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  Speaker 1: you going. Don't bark back at this dog because the
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  Speaker 1: dog come famous. Because they ain't gonna be able to
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  Speaker 1: get to you, but the dog is famous. Now They
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  Speaker 1: want to interview the dog. Now the dog guess what
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  Speaker 1: he gonna do? Mo bark? And guess what about you? Man?
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  Speaker 1: Gone about your business, y'all. God is in the blessing
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  Speaker 1: business all day long. Man, Go get in line, get
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  Speaker 1: you some get them packages and boxes ship to you.
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  Speaker 1: They got your name on it. Show. Good morning, everybody,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the ride. Steve Harvey Morning Show, very very
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  Speaker 1: special show this morning. This is the email K Show.
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  Speaker 1: This is where we recognize one of the greatest leaders
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  Speaker 1: of all time. Ladies and gentlemen. I am proud to
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  Speaker 1: say that I was alive to see one of the
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  Speaker 1: greatest leaders ever born in this world today, Marna Luther King.
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  Speaker 1: Make no mistake about it. You can say who you
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  Speaker 1: want to say. I could throw a mar Luther King
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  Speaker 1: and I can match him. This was a bad, bad
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  Speaker 1: man man. And so we're here to celebrate his birth,
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  Speaker 1: his life, everything, and we got the whole show here
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  Speaker 1: to get it done. Let's get a start of Sherley Strawberry.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Happy MLK Day. Steve Carlin Pharrell, Good morning,
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  Speaker 1: Happy m l K Day. Everybody but you got Julie morning, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Happy Kane Day. Kane nephew Tommy top Top Emil Kane,
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  Speaker 1: greatest of all time? Yes, sir, Yes, sir, twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: Here we are. You know, y'all, y'all got to live
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  Speaker 1: to see king. I had to read about him in
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  Speaker 1: the books. I wouldn't even him. I didn't see y'all,
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  Speaker 1: didn't Timmy, you was ten, You was just born, tom
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  Speaker 1: You were born in sixty seven. Yeah, he was a
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  Speaker 1: l when you was one year old. He was killed,
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  Speaker 1: right man? Yeah I was eleven. Yeah, you got to
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  Speaker 1: see him, hey man. Miss Blandon made us watch the
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  Speaker 1: funeral on TV. She bought a black and white TV
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  Speaker 1: to school and made us watch the funeral on TV.
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  Speaker 1: Messed us up because we didn't understand because you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: when when when I came home, man, When when I
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  Speaker 1: came home from school when he had been murdered. My
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  Speaker 1: father was home, he had left work and him and
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  Speaker 1: my mother was standing in that crime. And I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: understand it. I came home and why y'all crying? Why
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  Speaker 1: the crying? And my father said, white folks don't want
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  Speaker 1: us to have nothing to And that's and that was him,
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  Speaker 1: my father, That was his analogy of the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: White folks don't want us to have nothing. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: kill this man right here, ain't did nothing in nobody.
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  Speaker 1: All he wanted to do was have us together. And
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  Speaker 1: that's when I thought, and it sent me into something
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  Speaker 1: as a child, because I begin I thought what my
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  Speaker 1: father was saying was factual, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: And I accepted that, and I went and I lived
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  Speaker 1: for a lot of years with that thought, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of years with that thought. And so and
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  Speaker 1: our parents were so strong, Steve, and to see them
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  Speaker 1: cry like that, I can't only imagine. Yeah, that was
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  Speaker 1: that was devastating. Man. This was their hope, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for holding hands to speech in sixty four. I have
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  Speaker 1: a dream. And then from the man he thought, Man,
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  Speaker 1: we thought we was gonna get somewhere, and they killed
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  Speaker 1: his dude, My father's growing boy. Oh he was period.
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  Speaker 1: Oh he was through. And so yeah, wow, Well he
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  Speaker 1: left the legacy with his speeches and just all the
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  Speaker 1: good work, you know, with his nonviolence that he taught us.
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  Speaker 1: And and you know, his birthday is always celebrated as
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  Speaker 1: a day of service. So yeah, we're gonna place some
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  Speaker 1: of the highlights all morning of doctor King's most famous speeches.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what we're gonna do here as we celebrate
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  Speaker 1: doctor Martin Luther King Junior on this day. We'll be back.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening show right now. Here's a drum majst speech
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  Speaker 1: on the Steve Harvey Morning Show. An instinct. It's a
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  Speaker 1: kind of drum major instinct. A desire to be out front,
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  Speaker 1: a desire to lead the parade, a desire to be first.
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  Speaker 1: It is something that runs the whole gamut of life.
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  Speaker 1: And so before we condemn them, let us see that
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  Speaker 1: we all have the drum major instinct. We all want
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  Speaker 1: to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to
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  Speaker 1: lead the parade. Alfred Adler, the great psychoanalyst, contends that
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  Speaker 1: this is the dominant impulse. Sigmund Fraud used to contend
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  Speaker 1: that sex was the dominant impulse, and adlacan with a
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  Speaker 1: new argument, saying that this quest for recognition, this desire
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  Speaker 1: for attention, this desire for distinction, is the basic impulse,
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  Speaker 1: the basic drive of human human life, this drum major instinct.
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  Speaker 1: And you know we begin earlier to ask life to
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  Speaker 1: put us first. Our first cry as a baby was
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  Speaker 1: a bid for the tension and all through childhood, the
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  Speaker 1: drum major impulse or instinct is a major obsession. Children
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  Speaker 1: ask life to grant them first place. They are a
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  Speaker 1: little bundle of ego they have innately the drum major instinct.
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  Speaker 1: Now an adult life, we still have it and we
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  Speaker 1: really never get by it. We like to do something good,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, we like to be praised for it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't believe that, you just go on living life,
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  Speaker 1: and you will discover very soon that you like to
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  Speaker 1: be praised. Everybody likes it as a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: And somehow this warm glow we feel when we are
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  Speaker 1: praised or when our name is in print is something
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  Speaker 1: of the vitamin aide to our ego. Nobody is unhappy
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  Speaker 1: when they are praised, even if they know they don't
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  Speaker 1: deserve it, and even if they don't believe it. The
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  Speaker 1: only unhappy people about praise is when that praise is
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  Speaker 1: going too much towards somebody else. But everybody likes to
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  Speaker 1: be praised because of this real drum major instinct. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know that a lot of the race problem grows
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  Speaker 1: out of the drum made instinct A need that some
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  Speaker 1: people have to feel superior, a need that some people
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  Speaker 1: have to feel that they are first, and to feel
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  Speaker 1: that their white skin ordained them to be first. And
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  Speaker 1: they have said over and over the game in ways
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  Speaker 1: that we see with our own eyes. In fact, not
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  Speaker 1: too long ago, a man down in Mississippis said that
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  Speaker 1: God was a child a member or the White Citizens Council.
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  Speaker 1: And so God being the child a member means that
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  Speaker 1: everybody who's in that has a kind of divinity, a
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  Speaker 1: kind of superiority. And think of what has happened in
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  Speaker 1: historism as a result, dis perverted use of the drum
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  Speaker 1: made instinct led to the most tragic prejudice, the most
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  Speaker 1: tragic expressions of man's in humanity to man. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: not only does this thing going to the racial struggle,
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  Speaker 1: goes into the struggle between nations. And I would submit
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  Speaker 1: to you this morning that what is wrong in the
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  Speaker 1: world today is the the nations of the world are
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  Speaker 1: engaged in a bitter, colossal contest for supremacy, and some
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  Speaker 1: doesn't having to stop this trend. I'm sorely afred that
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  Speaker 1: we won't be here to talk about Jesus Christ and
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  Speaker 1: about God and about brotherhood too many more years. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: done bringing into this suicidal thrust that we see in
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  Speaker 1: the world today. None of us are going to be
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  Speaker 1: around because somebody is going to make the mistake through us,
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  Speaker 1: since Sliss blunderings of dropping a nuclear bomb somewhere and
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  Speaker 1: then another one is gonna drop. And don't let anybody
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  Speaker 1: fool you. Oh, this can happen within a matter of seconds.
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  Speaker 1: They have twenty megaton bombs in Russia right now that
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  Speaker 1: can destroy US city as big as New York in
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  Speaker 1: three seconds, with everybody wiped away in every building. And
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  Speaker 1: we can do the same thing to Russian China. But
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  Speaker 1: this is why we are drifted, and we are drifting
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  Speaker 1: now because nations are caught up with the gum major instinct.
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  Speaker 1: I must be first, I must be supreme all a
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  Speaker 1: nasion must rule the world. And I am sad to
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  Speaker 1: say that the nation in which we live is the
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  Speaker 1: supreme culprit. And I'm gonna continue to say it to
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  Speaker 1: America because I love this country too much to see
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  Speaker 1: the drift that it has taken. God didn't call America
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  Speaker 1: to do what she's doing in the world now. God
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  Speaker 1: didn't call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war
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  Speaker 1: as a war in Vietnam, and we are criminals in
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  Speaker 1: that war. We've committed more war crimes almost than any
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  Speaker 1: nation in the world. And I'm going to continue to
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  Speaker 1: say it, and we won't stop it because of our
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  Speaker 1: pride and I Ragan says the nation. But God has
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  Speaker 1: a way of even put nations in that place. You're
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  Speaker 1: listening show, Welcome back to the ride. We will continue
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  Speaker 1: with more of Doctor Kings the drum major instinct speech.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody is unhappy when they are praised, even if they
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  Speaker 1: know they don't deserve it, and even if they don't
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  Speaker 1: believe it. The only unhappy people about praise is when
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  Speaker 1: that praise is going too much towards somebody else. But
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  Speaker 1: everybody likes to be praised because of this real drum
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  Speaker 1: major instinct. Do you know that a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: race problem grows out of the drum major instinct? A
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  Speaker 1: need that some people have to feel superior, a need
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  Speaker 1: that some people have to feel that they are first,
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  Speaker 1: and to feel that their white skin ordained them to
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  Speaker 1: be first. And they have said over and over the
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  Speaker 1: game in ways that we see with our own eyes.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, not too long ago, a man down in
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Mississippis said that God was a child a member or
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  Speaker 1: the white citizens counsel, and so God being the child
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  Speaker 1: a member means that everybody who's in that has us
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  Speaker 1: a kind of divinity, hind of superiority. And think of
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  Speaker 1: what has happened in historism as a result, this perverted
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  Speaker 1: use of the drum mage instinct led to the most
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  Speaker 1: tragic prejudice, the most tragic expressions of man's in humanity
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  Speaker 1: to man. I mean, not only does this thing going
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  Speaker 1: too the racial struggle goes into the struggle between nations.
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  Speaker 1: And I would submit to you this morning that what
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  Speaker 1: is wrong in the world today is that the nations
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  Speaker 1: of the world engaged in a bitter, colossal contest for supremacy,
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  Speaker 1: and some done having to stop this trend. I'm sorely
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  Speaker 1: afred that we won't be here to talk about Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ and about God and about brotherhood too minimal years.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody done bringing into this suicide thrust that we see
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  Speaker 1: in the world today. None of us are gonna be
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  Speaker 1: around because somebody is gonna make the mistake through our
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: senseless blunderings, of dropping a nuclear bomb somewhere, and then
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: another one is gonna drop and don't let anybody fool you,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: this can happen within a matter of seconds. They have
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  Speaker 1: twenty megaton bombs in Russia right now that can destroy
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  Speaker 1: a city as big as New York in three seconds
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  Speaker 1: with everybody wiped away in every building. And we can
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  Speaker 1: do the same thing to Russian China. But this is
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  Speaker 1: why we are drifted, and we are drifting now because
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  Speaker 1: nations are caught up with the drum major instinct. I
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  Speaker 1: must be first, I must be supreme all a nation
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  Speaker 1: must rule the world. And I am sad to say
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  Speaker 1: that the nation in which we live is the supreme culprit.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna continue to say it to America because
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  Speaker 1: I love this country too much to see the drift
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  Speaker 1: that it has taken. God didn't call America to do
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  Speaker 1: what she's doing in the world now. God didn't call
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: America to engage in a senseless, unjust war as a
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: war in Vietnam, and we are criminals in that war.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: We have committed more war crimes almost than any nation
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  Speaker 1: in the world. And I'm going to continue to say it,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: and we won't stop it because of our pride, and
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: I Ragan says the nation. But God has a way
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  Speaker 1: of even put nations in that place. The God that
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: I worship has a way of saying, don't play with me.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: He has a way of saying. Is a god of
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: the Old Testament used to say the Hebrews, don't play
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: with Mesurem, don't play with Smith Babylon. Be still and
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  Speaker 1: know that I'm God. If you don't stuck your reckless course,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: I'll rise up and break the backbone of your power.
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  Speaker 1: That can happen to America. Every nine then I go
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: back and read Gibbons Decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
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  Speaker 1: And when I come and look at America, I say
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: to myself, the parallels are frightening. We have perverted the
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: drum made instinct. Every nine then, I guess we all
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: think realistically about that day when we will be victimized
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: with what is life's final common denominator. That's something we
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: call death. We all think about it to every nine.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Then I think about my own death, and I think
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: about my own funeral, and I don't think of it
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: in a morbid sense. Every nine then I asked myself
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: what is it that I would want say? And I
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  Speaker 1: leave the word to you this morning. If any of
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  Speaker 1: you are wrong, When I have to meet my day.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I don't want a long funeral. And if you get
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: somebody here to deliver the unite, you tell him not
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: to talk to you long every nine. Then I wonder
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: what I want him to say. Tell him not to
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: mention that I have a Nobel Peace Prize. That isn't important.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Tell him not to mention that I have three or
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: four hundred of awards, that's not important. Tell him not
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: to mention where I went to school. I like somebody
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: to mention that day the modern Luther King Junior tried
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: to give his life serving of us. I'd like for
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: somebody to say that day, the modern Luther King Junior
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  Speaker 1: tried to love somebody. I want you to say that
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  Speaker 1: day that I tried to be right on the wall question.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to be able to say that day
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  Speaker 1: that I did try to feed the hungry. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to be able to say that day that I
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: did try in my life to close those who were naked.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I want you to say on that day that I
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: did try in my life to visit those who were imprisoned.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: I want you to say that I tried to love
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: and serve humanity. Yes, if you want to say that
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I was a drum major. Say that I was a
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: drum major for justice, Say that I was a drum
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: And all of the other shallow things will nothing matter.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: I won't have any money to leave behind, I won't
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: have the fine and luxurious scenes of life to leave behind.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: But I just want to leave I committed life behind,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: and that's all I want to say. If I can
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  Speaker 1: help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer
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  Speaker 1: somebody with a world a song, if I can show
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  Speaker 1: somebody he's traveling wrong, then my living will not be
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: in vain. If I can do my duty as a
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Christen Hawk, if I can bring salvation to a wall
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: who once wrote, if I can spread the message as
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: the Master talk, then my living will not be in vain.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: You're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show, and Steve we
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: gotta say happy belated birthday to you yesterday sixfold like
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: switching fold help your rand show good. Yeah, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It's hard. It's hard to be this
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: fly at sixty. I ain't gonna lie to you. I
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: felt like it, I said, man, But you know it
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: all honestly, man, just number gratitude, man, because I'm gonna
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: tell you, man, it was just sometimes, man, I really
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: didn't think I would c sixty four to wow. I mean,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: I've been laying on the street and you know I
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: wasn't I wasn't supposed to be here. A couple of
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: times I died in the swimming pool. One time, my
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: best friend Recalldo pool dovid. I died in the swimming pool.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: I thought, I felt I thought I was dying. I'm dying.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I was drowning, drowning. I was drowning, and a friend
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: of mine dumped in and saved my life. Saved your life,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Ricardo Proud. I still I talked to him about that
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: all the time, recalled when I was trying to talk
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: to or somebody about oh that guy, good dude. You
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: know she you have to be you know, okay, you're
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: getting off. Yeah your birthday, yeah, anyway, anyway, you know,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Harry birthday. Really I want to thank my wife for
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: set me out. Hey, Marjorie, I can't tell it, but
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: all I can tell you, Sixto, you got to do
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: all that smiling man. Man, Man, my girl, she she
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: just laid me out man. When she gave me for
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: my birthday, Man, was just outstanding. There. You can't tell
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: us what, Yeah, you got another plane? You got another
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: damn no. Okay, my wife can't go buy no plane.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: You know the kind of meetings we had to hear
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: to go do something. You can't just can't just go
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: buy no damn plane. I wish, Oh, it's gonna happen
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: one day. But now now, man, it's just you know
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: what it is. Man. I talk to y'all because y'all
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: friends of mine, and I know y'all will be happy
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: for me, and I know a lot of my listeners
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: will be happy for me. But you know, I keep
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff to myself because there's so many hayes.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: What you're doing all that for in the pandemic? Well, hell,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: it's still the pandemic. What you want us to stop doing?
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: We can't stop living because it's the pandemic, you know.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: And and and you know what I learned at sixty four.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: In spite of the pandemic, God is still in the
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: blessing business. There's some great things happening for some people, man,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: even in the middle of a global pandemic. And I
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: happen to be one of those, because once again, I
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: live my life in the expectation that God is gonna
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: do something great for me, even on the heels of
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: something going so bad and so wrong. I mean, man,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: you know, I've really grown as a person man to
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: understand that when something goes wrong in my life, all
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: I gotta do is right it out. Yeah, counted all joy.
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  Speaker 1: He always got something from me. On the other side,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: I ain't never seen him have something negative happened to
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: me and it just stayed negative. He's turned every last
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: one of my catastrophes intoward abundant blessing. I can truly
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: say that today y'all seen me. Y'all have seen me.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah. You know how many times they
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: have wrote me off? Yeah? Oh he finished, Nah, yeah,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: you don't know that God I served. Oh yeah, all right, Steve,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: we're gonna take it on over. Introduced please the news
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: with ladies and gentlemen, Miss Anne Trup. Thank you very much, everybody,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: and here we go. Vice President elect Kamala Harris steps
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: down today from her California Senate seat, and then, of course,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: in two days she used to make history as the
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: first woman the first Black, the first East Indian, the
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: first Asian to serve as vice president. She also becomes
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: the President of the Senate. Now that's a largely ceremonial position,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: as you expect, but in a Senate split fifty fifty,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: which is what we have now, which we're going to
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: have after January twentieth, Kamala Harris gets to cast a
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: tie breaking vote, which would you know, as we assume,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: it would be in favor of the Democrat California Governor
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom's picked Secretary of State Alex Padilla to replace her.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: That would make Padilla California's first Latino Senator, and get this,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: it's first mail US Senator in more than thirty years.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles County unfortunately hit a COVID milestone over the weekend.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: There are now more than one million confirmed cases of
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: the coronavirus in the most populous California county, and the
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: strain out of the UK is now in LA. Health
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: officials say that this new variant is about fifty percent
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: more contagious than the form we've been dealing with all
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: this time. More contagious, not more deadly, but just more contagious,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: and the health experts also say it's likely that the
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: new Bridge Child's version of the COVID is already spreading
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: in southern California in the wake of the Capitol Hill riot. Meanwhile,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: and the run up to the election, armed groups did
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: descend on a few state capitals yesterday, but no major
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: problems were reported. Authorities in Lansing, Michigan, say, for instance,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: at about twenty armed men showed up outside the Capitol building.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: There were no violent incidents and no arrest. All the
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: gunmen were gone by three pm. An armed group was
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: also report outside of New Jersey's capital and Trenton yesterday.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: There were no arrest, but The New York Times reports
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: that there were also some small anti government protests in Ohio, Oregon, Wisconsin,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: and Texas. The handful of Georgia state senators, by the way,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: who tried to negate the presidential election results have been
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: stripped of their committee chairmanships. Lieutenant Governor Jeff Duncan, who
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: happens to be a Republican, made that call, and now
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: State Senator Brandon Beach of Alfreda has been removed as
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: head of the Transportation Committee. Burne Jones of Jackson's been
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: removed as head of the Insurance and Labor Committee. Matt
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Bass of Noonan is off the Reapportionment and Registrictream Committee.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: He will serve instead on the Banking and Financial Institutions Committee,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: which is described by the Atlanta Journal Constitution is really
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: a lesser or less important position, So it's kind of demotion. Finally,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: since Donald Trump was the first president White House since
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: one of the century, he didn't have a dog. Joe
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Biden's bringing two major and Champ both German shepherds, has
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: already been an indauguration. Do you promise if joa Okay,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: just so you know, now back to the Steve Robby
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Morning Show. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Show. Happy
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: King Holiday, Well, Steve, This Wednesday is the inauguration of
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: the forty sixth president, President elected Joe Biden and the
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: first African American woman President elect Harris We also yeah,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: I mean yeah, where can you say? We're so happy?
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: We also just had a huge win in Georgia Senate
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: runoff election with Reverend Raphael Warnock, pastor doctor Keaton Baptist
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Church and then a Jewish Democratic Senator John Assa. Well
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: White is voting so important. I think it's important to
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: talk about it on MLK Day as well. As we've
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: proven in this election right here that when we make
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: a decision as a people and we move as a people,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: we have far more power than we thought. Make no
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: mistake about it, man, The young people that turned out
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: for this election made a difference. The young people who
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: turned out in this election who did not vote before
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: made the difference. It started in Milwaukee when they turned
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: around Wisconsin, but they wasn't really tripping right there. They
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: went on over to Michigan and then asked where they
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: This was the blue wall that they had to hold
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: on to. And then Detroit showed up, and Lord have mercy,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: the vote changed it Detroit one, Michigan, and then it
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: came down to Pennsylvania, and then Pennsylvania it got to Philly,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: and Philly w das one oh five point three sounds
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: like Philly to base showed up man and clowned at
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: them posed and they must around in one Pennsylvania, and
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: then we came down here to Georgia, and then it
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: got to Fulton County, Cobb County, Ginette County, all of
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: them counties, Man and Fulton and all of a sudden,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: it was our turn. And then that black brown vote
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: showed up and that turned the election. And then Georgia
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: was one, and then we had a runoff, and we
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: got to the runoff and you looked up at the
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: polls and Left Lou was winning and Perdue was winning.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: And then the vote started coming in from them same
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: counties again, and them same people showed up, but in
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: bigger numbers, and all of a sudden we affected the
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: election again. That's why voting is important, because we proved
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: in this election that we moves the needle. And now
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: they got to deal with us as a as a
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: voting block next time, because we're powerful now. And they
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: were so mad they counded Georgia three times, three times times,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: we lost three times, bought in computer's robots. Yeah, all right,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: coming up with thirty two minutes after the hour, we'll
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: have more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show on the
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Sking Holiday right after this. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Happy King Day, Well Steve. Back in nineteen sixty three,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: the late great Congressman John Lewis spoke at the March
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: on Washington. Then twenty thirteen Congressman Lewis gave a speech
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary on the March on Washington
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: at the Lincoln Memorial. Here's an excerpt of mister Lewis's speech.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen. Fifty years ago, fifty years ago, I
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: stood right here in this spot, twenty three years old,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: had all of my hair and a few pins light off.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: So I come back here again, just said at those days,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: for the most part a gone. But we have another fight.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: We must stand up and fight the good fight. As
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: we march today for the Air forces. They are people
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: who want to take us back. We cannot go back.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: We come too far. We want to go forward. Back.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen six, the three hundreds and thousand and millions
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: of our brothers and sisters could not register to vote.
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  Speaker 1: When I stood here fifty years ago, I said, one man,
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  Speaker 1: one vote is African cry. It is ours tool. It
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: must be ours. I also said, some people tell us
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: to wait, tell us to be patient. I said, fifty
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: years later, we cannot wait. We cannot be patient. We
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: want jobs and we want our freedom now, all of us.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter whether we are black or white, Latino
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Asian America, a native American. It doesn't matter whether we
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: are straight a gay. We are one people. We are
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: one family, we are one house. We all live in
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: the same house. So I said to you, my brothers
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: and sisters, we cannot give up. We cannot I give out,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: we cannot give in. We must get out there and
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: push and pull them. Now, I a few short years ago,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: almost for the eight years ago, well for their years ago,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: almost fifty years ago, I gave a little blood on
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: that bridge and sell my Alabama for the right to vote.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: I am not gonna stand by and let the Supreme
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Court take the right to vote away from us. You
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: cannot stand by, you cannot sit down. You got to
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: stand up, speak up, speak out, and get in the way,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: make some noise. The vote is precious, it is almost sacred.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: It is the most powerful non violent tool be having
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: a democratic society. And we got to use that. Back
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty three, we hadn't heard of the internet.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: We didn't have well sell your telephone, I pad our part.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: But we used what we had to bring about a
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: non violent revolution. And I said to all of the
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: young people, you must get out there and push and
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: pull and make America what America should be for all
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: of us. We must set to the Congress fix the
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: voting right site. We must set to the Congress past
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: comprehensive immigration reform. It doesn't make sense that million of
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: our people are living in the shadow. Bring them out
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: into the light and set them on a para to citizenship.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: So hanging there, keep the faith. I got the rest
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: of forty times in the sixties beating, let bloody and unconscious.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: But I'm not tied, I'm not weary. I'm not prepared
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: to sit down and give up, and ready to fight
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: and continue to fight. And you must fight, thank you
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: very much. I have a dream that we will unathought
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: the King's real legacy, his last project, which was to
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: wimp out malnutrition and not whip out the malnourished. Too
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: much for war and violence and hatred. I have a
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: dream that we in fact revived the war on poverty,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: affirmed the right to vote for all Americans, and student
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: loan that forgiveness inspire youth to old good of college
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: and make something happen in their lives and for our nations.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: You're listening to string show. Then there were those elected
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: officials who found it useful to practice the old politics
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: of division, doing their best to convince middle class Americans
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: of a great untruth that government was somehow itself to
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: blame for the growing economic insecured. The distant bureaucrats were
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: taking their hard earned dollars to benefit the welfare cheat
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: or the illegal immigrant. And then, if we're honest with ourselves,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: we'll admit that during the course of fifty years, there
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: were times when some of us claiming to push for
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: change lost our way. The anguish of assassinations set off
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: self defeating riots, legitimate grievances against police brutality tipped into
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: excuse making for criminal behavior. Racial politics could cut both ways,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: as the transformative message of unity and brotherhood was drowned
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: out by the language of recrimination, and what had once
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: been a call for equality of opportunity, the chance for
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: all Americans to work hard and get ahead, was too
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: often framed as a mere desire for government support, as
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: if we had no agency in our own. Liberation is
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: if poverty was an excuse for not raising your child,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: and the bigotry of others was reason to give up
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: on yourself. All of that history is how progress stalled.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: That's how hope was diverted, so our country remained divided.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: But the good news is, just as was true in
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three, we now have a choice. We can
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: continue down our current path, in which the gears of
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: this great democracy grind to a halt, and our children
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: accept a life of lower expectations, where politics is a
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: zero sum game where a few do very well while
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: struggling families of every race fight over a shrinking economic pie.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: That's one path, or we can have the courage to change.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: The March on Washington teaches us that we are not
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: trapped by the mistakes of history, that we are masters
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: of our faith. But it also teaches us that the
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: promise of this nation will only be kept when we
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: work together. We'll have to reignite the embers of empathy
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  Speaker 1: and fellow feeling, the coalition of conscience that found expression
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  Speaker 1: in this place fifty years ago. And I believe that
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: spirit is there, that truth force inside each of us.
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  Speaker 1: I see it when a white mother recognizes her own
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: daughter in the face of a poor black child. I
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: see it when the black youth thinks of his own
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: grandfather in the dignified steps of an elderly white And
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: it's there. When the native born recognizing that striving spirit
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: of the new imprim When the interracial couple connects the
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: pain of a gay couple who are discriminated against and
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: understands it as their own. That's where courage comes from.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: When we turn not from each other or on each other,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: but towards one another, and we find that we do
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: not walk alone, that's where courage comes from her And
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: with that courage, we can stand together for good jobs
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: and just wages. With that courage, we can stand together
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: for the right to healthcare in the richest nation on earth,
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: for every person. With that courage, we can stand together
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: for the right of every child from the corners of
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Anacosta to the hills of Appalachian to get an education
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: that stirs the mind and captures the spirit and prepares
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  Speaker 1: them for the world that awaits them. With that courage,
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: we can feed the hunger and how's the homeless, and
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: transform bleak waste, lands of poverty in the fields of
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  Speaker 1: commerce and promise America. I know of the road will
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: be long, but I know we can get there. Yes,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: we will stumble, but I know we'll get back up.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: That's how a movement happens. That's how history bends. That's
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: them along and says, come on, we're marching. There's a
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: reason why so many who march that day and in
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: the days to come. We're young. For the young or
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: unconstrained by habits of fear, unconstrained by the conventions of
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: what is, They dared to dream different, They to imagine
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  Speaker 1: something better. And I am convinced that same imagination, the
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: same hunger of purpose, stirs in this generation. We might
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: not face the same dangers of nineteen sixty three, but
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: the fierce urgency of now remains. We may never duplicate
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: the swelling crowds and dazzling procession of that day so
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: long ago. No one can match King's brilliance. But the
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: same flame that let the heart of all who are
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: willing to take a first step for justice. I know
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: that flame remains. That tireless teacher who gets to class
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: early and stays late and dips into her own pocket
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: to buy supplies because she believes that every child is
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: her charge. She's marching. That successful business man who doesn't
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: have to but pays his workers a fair wage and
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: then offers a shot to a man, maybe an ex con,
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: who's down on his luck. He's marching. The mother who
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: pours her love into her daughter so that she grows
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: up with the confidence to walk through the same doors
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: as anybody's son. She's marching the father who realizes the
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: most important job he'll ever have is raising his boy right,
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: even if he didn't have a father, especially if he
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: didn't have a father at home. He's marching the battles,
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: scarred veterans who devote themselves not only to help him
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: their fellow warriors stand again and walk again and run again,
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: but to keep serving their country when they come home.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: They are marching everyone who realizes what those glorious patriots
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: new on that day. The change does not come from Washington,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: but to Washington. The change has always been built on
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: our willingness, we the people, to take on the mantle
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: of citizenship. If you are merchant, and that's the lesson
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: of our past, that's the promise of tomorrow. And in
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: the faith of impossible lives, people who love their country
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: can change it. And when millions of Americans of every race,
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: in every region, every faith, and every station can join
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: together in a spirit of brotherhood. Then those mountains will
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: be made low, and those rough places will be made plain,
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: and those crooked places now towards grace, and we will
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: vindicate the faith of those who sacrifice so much and
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: live up to the true meaning of our creed as
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: one nation under God, indivisible with liberty, injustice, fraud. You're
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: listening show. Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. Once Said that
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: life's most persistent and urgent question is what are you
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: doing for others? Coming up? We got some excerpts from
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: Doctor Kings. I've been to the mountaintop speech. Let us
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: rise up tonight with a greater readiness in these powerful days,
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: These days a challenging to make America what it ought
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: to be. We have an opportunity to make America a
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: better nation. And I want to thank God once more
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: for allowing me to be here with you. You know,
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: several years ago I was in New York City autographing
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: the first book that I had written. While sitting the
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: autographing books, the minute black woman came up. The only
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: question I heard from her was you Marderin Luther King.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: And I was looking down writing and I said yes.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: The next minute I felt something beating on my chest.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: Before I knew it, I had been stabbed by this
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: deminuted woman. I was rushed to Hullum Hospital. It was
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: a dog Saturday afternoon. That blade had gone through, and
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: the X rays revealed that the tip of the blade
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: was on the edge of my air order the main
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: ottery and once ups punction, you drowned in your own blood.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: That's the end of you. It came out in the
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: New York Times the next morning that if I had
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: merely sneezed, I would have died. Well. About four days later,
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: they allowed me after the operation, after my chest had
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: been open and the blade had been taken out, to
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: move around in the wheelchair and the hospital, they allowed
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: me to read some of the mail that came in,
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: and from all over the States and the world. Kind
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: letters came in. I read a few, but one of
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: them I will never forget. I had received one from
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: the President and the Vice President. I've forgotten what those
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: telegrams said. I'd received the visit and a letter from
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: the Governor of New York, but I've forgotten what that
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: letters say it. But that was another letter that came
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: from a little girl, a young girl who was a
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: student at the White Plains High School. And I looked
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: at that letter. I'll never forget it said simply, dear
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: doctor King, I am a ninth grade student at the
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: White Plains High School. She said. While it should not matter,
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: I would like to mention that I'm a white girl.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: I read in the paper of your misfortune and of
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: your suffering, and I read that if you had sneezed,
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: you would have died. I'm simply writing you to say
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: that I'm so happy that you didn't sneeze. And I'd
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: want to say to Night. I want to say to
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: Night that I too, am happy that I didn't sneeze,
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: because if I had sneeze, I wouldn't have been around
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: hid in nineteen sixty when students all over the South
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: started sitting in at lunch counts, and I knew that
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: as they were sitting in, they were really standing up
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: for the best in the American dream and taken the
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: whole nation back to those great weals of democracy which
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: were dug deep by the founding fathers in the Declaration
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: of Independence and the Constitution. If I had sneezed, I
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have been around hid In nineteen six to one,
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: when we decided to take a ride for freedom and
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: end its segregation in it to state travel. If I
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here in nineteen
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: sixty two when Negroes and all been at Georgia decided
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: to straighten that box up. And whenever men and women
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: straighten that box up, they're going somewhere because a man
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: had roger back unless it is bent. If I had sneezed,
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been here. In nineteen
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: sixty three, the black people of Birmingham, Alabama aroused the
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: conscience of this nation and brought into being the Civil
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: Rights Bill. If I had sneeze, I wouldn't have had
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: a chance later that year in August to try to
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: tell America about a dream that I had had. If
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: I had sneeze, I wouldn't have been down in Selma,
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: Alabama to see the Gretain movement there. If I had sneezed,
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been in Memphis to see a community
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: rally around those brothers and sisters who are suffering. I'm
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: so happy that I didn't sleeve and they were telling
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: them now it doesn't matter now. It really doesn't matter
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: what happens now. I left Atlanta this morning and as
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: we got started on the plane that was six of us,
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: the pilot said over the public address system, we are
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: sorry for the delaye but we have doctor Mard Luther
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: King on the plane and to be sure that all
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: of the bags were checked and to be sure that
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: nothing would be wrong on the plane, we had to
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: check out everything carefully, and we've had the plane protected
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: and guard it all night. And then I got into
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: Memphis and some began to say the threats a talk
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: about the threats that while or what would happen to
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: me from some of our sick white brothers. Well, I
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now,
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: because I've been to the mountain talk. I don't mind.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: Like anybody, I would like to live a long life.
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: Longevity has its place, but I'm not concerned about that now.
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: I just want to do God's will, and He's allowed
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: me to go up to the mountain, and I've looked
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: over and I've seen the promised land. I may not
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: get there with you, but I want you to know
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: the night that we as a people will get to
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: the Promised Land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: about anything. I'm a fivery inner man. Mine eyes have
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: seen the glory overcoming of the Lord. You're listening Morning
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: show coming up. We're gonna play some excerpts from Doctor
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: King's I Have a Dream speech. I am happy to
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: john with you today. In what will go down in
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: Pope the millions of Negro slaves who had been seared
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: joyous day break to end the long night of their captivity.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: But one hundred years later, the Negro steal is not free.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: the Negro is still languished in the corners of American
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: society and finds himself in exile in his own land.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: So we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: In a sense, we've come to our nation's capital to
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: cash a check. When the architects of our Republic wrote
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: they were signing a promise or inoe, to whichever the
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: American was to fall air. This note was a promise
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: at all men, yes, black men as well as white men,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: has defaulted on this promise, or in so far as
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: a check which has come back mark insufficient funds. But
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: we refuse to believe that the Bank of Justice is bankrupt.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: He refuse to believe that that are insufficient funds in
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: the Great faults of opportunity of this nation. So we've
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: come to cash this check, a check that will give us,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: upon demand, the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: We have also come to this hell of spot to
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: remind the miracle of the fierce urgency of now. This
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: offer to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: is the time arise from the dark and desolate valley
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: is the time from the quick sends of racial injustice
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: the reality for all of God's Still, it would be
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: This sweltering summer of the Negroes. Legitimate discontent will not
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: pass until that is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: Nineteen sixty three is not an end, but a beginning.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: Those who hope that the negro needed to blow off
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: If the nation returns to business as usual, thou will
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the negro
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: has granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds a revolt will
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: bright day of justice emerges. But that is something that
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: I must say to my people who stand on the
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: the process of gaining all right for place, we must
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: not be guilty of wrong for deeds. Let us not
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: seek to satisfy first for freedom by drinking from the
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: cup of bitterness and hatred. You're listening Steve Hardy Morning
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: Shows right now. As promise, we're gonna play some of
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: doctor Kings. I have a dream speech which he delivered
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial back in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty three. One day, right now in Alabama, little black
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: bars and black girls, we'll be able to join hands
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: with little white bars and white girls as sisters and brothers.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: I have a dream today. I have a dream that
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: one day every valace shall be exalted, every hill and
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: mountains shall be made lord. The rough places would be
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: made paint, and the crooked places will be made straight,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: and the corribel I shall be revealed in all shall
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: see it together. This is our hope. This is a
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: piece that I go back to the southwith. With this fan,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: we will be able to hear out of the mountain
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: of despair a stone of hope. With this fee, we
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: will be able to transform the jangling discords of our
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this fan,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: we will be able to work together, to pray together,
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: up for freedom, together, knowing that we will be free
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: one day. This will be the day when all of
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: God's children be able to sing with new meaning, My
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: country tearsity, sweet land of liberty, and be our sings,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrim's pride.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: From every mountain side, Let freedom ring in Americas. To
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: be a great nation, this must become true. So let
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: freedom ring from the heightening allegantors of Pennsylvania. Let freedom
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: ring from the snow cap rook is of Colorado. Let
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: freedom ring from the crevacious slopes of California. But not
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: only that. Let freedom ring from storm Mountain of Georgia.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: Let freedom ring from lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: ring from every hill and mole hill of Mississippi, from
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: every mountain side, Let freedom ring and wind. It happens
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: when we allow freedom ring. When we letted ring, I'm
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: every village and ever hamlet, from every state and ever si,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: we will be able to speed up that day when
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: all about children, black men and white men, choos and
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: ten piles, protistants and catholic we'll be able to join
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: hands and singing the words of the old Nigro spiritual,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: Free at last, Free at last. Thank god you're listening
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: to Steve Harvey Morning Show. Steve, we gotta say happy
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: belated birthday to you. Yesterday was your six fold like
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: switched sixtyfold l your old man show it good? Yeah,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: you know it's hard, is hard to beat this fly
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: at sixty fold. And I ain't lie to you. I
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: felt like it, I said, man, but you know it
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: all honestly, man, just number gratitude, man, because I'm gonna
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: tell you man, it was just sometimes, man, I really
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: didn't think I would c sixty four I mean, I've
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: been laying on the street, and you know I wasn't
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: I wasn't supposed to be here. A couple of times
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: I died in the swimming pool. One time, my best
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: friend recalled the pool dovid I died in the swimming pool.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: I thought, I felt. I thought I was dying, and
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: I'm dying. I was drowning, drowning. I was drowning, and
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: a friend of mine dumped in and saved my life,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: recalledo pood. I Still I talked to him about that
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: all the time, recalled him when I was trying to
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: talk to or somebody about Oh that guy. Yeah, good dude.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: You know she would rather be you know, okay off
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: your birthday yea, anyway, anyway, you know I her birthday. Really,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: I want to thank my wife for or setting me out. Hey, Marjorie.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: I can't tell it, but all I can tell you
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: is before you got all that smiling man, man, man,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: my girl, she she just laid me out. Man. When
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: she gave me for my birthday, man was just outstanding. Here.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: You can't tell us, Yeah you got another plane, you're
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: another damn plan. No, okay, my wife can't go buy
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: no plane. You're the kind of meetings we had to
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: hear to go do something. You can't just can't just
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: go buy no damn plane. What I which, Oh, it's
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: gonna happen one day, but now, no, man, it's just
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: you know what it is. Man. I talked to y'all
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: because y'all friends of mine, and I know y'all be
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: happy for me, and I know a lot of my
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: listeners would be happy for me. But you know, I
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  Speaker 1: keep a lot of stuff to myself because there's so
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: many hayes. What you're doing all that for on the pandemic, Well, hell,
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  Speaker 1: it's still the pandemic. What you want us to stop doing.
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  Speaker 1: We can't stop living because it's the pandemic, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And and and you know what I learned at sixty four.
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  Speaker 1: In spite of the pandemic, God is still in the
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  Speaker 1: blessing business. There's some great things happening for some people, man,
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  Speaker 1: even in the middle of a global pandemic. And I
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: happen to be one of those because once again, I
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  Speaker 1: live my life in the expectation that God is gonna
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: do something great for me, even on the heels of
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  Speaker 1: something going so bad and so wrong. I mean, man,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I've really grown as a person man to
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  Speaker 1: understand it. When something goes wrong in my life, all
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  Speaker 1: I gotta do is ride it out. Yeah, he always
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: got something from me. On the other side, I ain't
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  Speaker 1: never seen him have something negative happened to me and
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: it just stayed negative. He's turned every last one of
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: my catastrophes into an abundant blessing. I can truly say
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: that today y'all seen me. Y'all have seen me. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah. You know how many times they have wrote
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  Speaker 1: me off? Yeah yeah, oh he finished, Nah, yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: don't know that. God I served. Yeah, you're listening to
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: show well. The King Holiday is a day of service.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: So what are you guys doing to serve others? You know,
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: food for thought. I know, Steve, you and your wife though,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: are always giving back. The Harvey Foundation did mentoring virtually
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: this year due to the pandemic. Always giving back. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's it's the one thing that I have
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  Speaker 1: to that I really tried to hang my hat on
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: over the years, just like uh you with the breast
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: cancer thing, and Timmy with the miles of giving, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Junior with the Sickle Sale Foundation, and Shirley um with
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  Speaker 1: with the walks and the domestic violences to everything. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I was trying to. I said, the walks and everything
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  Speaker 1: you know out there walk you know, circus, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know flowers and you know and doing things. You know,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: but all of us, all of us are committed to
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: different causes. And you know it's because you know, God,
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: God blesses you to become a blessing, you know. So
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: it's really not just me. I'm really proud of my
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: entire team for working on the efforts that they work on.
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  Speaker 1: And I just command everybody out there that puts in work.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's not just me, it's it takes an
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: effort man, and a lot of people. Your your, your
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: part plays a huge role in everything. So I say
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  Speaker 1: congratulations to everybody and keep giving, because that's the spirit
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: of Mark Luther King. To be a great leader, you
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: must first be a great follower and a great servant.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: All right, night from the back. Yes we'll be back
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  Speaker 1: with more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show right after this.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Happy King Day,
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  Speaker 1: Well Steve. Back in nineteen sixty three, the late great
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  Speaker 1: Congressman John Lewis spoke at the March on Washington. Then
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen, Congressman Lewis gave a speech to commemorate
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: the fiftieth anniversary on the March on Washington at the
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: Lincoln Memorial. Here's an excerpt of mister Lewis's speech. Take
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: a listen. Fifty years ago I stood right here in
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  Speaker 1: this spot, twenty three years old, head, all of my
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: hair and a few pines light off. So I come
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: back here again, just said at those days, for the
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: most part a gong. But we have another fight. We
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: must stand up and fight the good fight as we
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: march today. But the air forces, they are people who
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: want to take us back. We cannot go back. We
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: come too far. We want to go forward. Back. In
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three, hundreds and thousand and millions of our
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters couldnt register to vote. When I stood
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  Speaker 1: here fifty years ago, I said, one man, one vote
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: is African cry, it is ours too, It must be ours.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: I also said, some people tell us to wait, tell
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: us to be patient. I said fifty years later, we
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: cannot wait. We cannot be patient. We want jobs and
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: we want our freedom. Now all of us. It doesn't
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: matter whether we're black or white. Let you know, Asian
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: America or Native American. It doesn't matter whether we're straight. Again,
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  Speaker 1: we are one people. We are one family, We are
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: one house. We all live in the same house. So
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: I said to you, my brothers and sisters, we cannot
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  Speaker 1: give up. We cannot give out, we cannot give in.
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  Speaker 1: We must get out there and push and pull them. Now.
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  Speaker 1: I a few short years ago, almost for the eight
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  Speaker 1: years ago, well for their years ago, almost fIF three
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  Speaker 1: years ago, I gave a little blood on that bridge
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  Speaker 1: and spell my Alabama for the right to vote. I
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: am not gonna stand by and let the Supreme Court
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: take the right to vote away from us. You cannot
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: stand by, you cannot sit down. You got to stand up,
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: speak up. We got and get in the way. Make
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: some noise. All right, coming up, it is our last
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: break of the day on this MLK day. We'll have
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: some closing remarks. That's coming up at forty nine minutes
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: after the hour. Right after this, you're listening to show
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: all right here we are our last break of the
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  Speaker 1: day on this Martin Luther King Junior Day, twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: one and Steve, you're right, we're here. We made it
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: to twenty twenty one. Man, we made it. That's that's
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: such a blessing man. And like I was saying the
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: other day last week, you know, we we've been dealing
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: so much with this riots and these terrorists and this
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: Trump an attack and an impeachment and all like this.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: We forgot to celebrate twenty twenty one and now here
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: we are halfway through the month, and we finally stopped
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: for a moment to take a moment and breathe and
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: celebrate Mara Luther King. And in closing, that's what I'm
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: talking about. It's just Mark Luther King, man, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: one of the great men of our times, one of
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  Speaker 1: the great men in history. If you didn't like Mara
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: Luther King's teachings because you were more of a violet,
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: that's you. But that has never worked for us. It
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: is His way was the absolute best way to accomplish
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: what we were trying to get accomplished. He taught us
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: something that I've remembered. You cannot conquer hate with more hate.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: The only way to conquer hate is with love. You
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: can't put out a fire with more fire. Somebody got
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: to bring water. You can't get rid of the darkness
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: without light. The sun got to come up. Somebody got
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: to strike a match. We need a light to battle darkness.
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  Speaker 1: If you're in the darkest cave in the world, if
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: you just strike one match, you become the brightest glow.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: You provide the glimmer of hope. And all we have
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  Speaker 1: to do is try to remember what Doctor King was
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: teaching us. To be light. Be light wherever you go.
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  Speaker 1: All of us can be light in your own particular way.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to be a star to be light.
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  Speaker 1: You ain't gotta have no TV shows, no radio show.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: You ain't got to be an ig model. You ain't
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: got to have the title. You can just be a light.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we was little man. I was in this
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: little gospel choir called the joy Landers, and the little
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: song that they used to love to have us come
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: up and saying was this little light of mine, I'm
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: gonna let it shine, let it shine, let it shine,
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: let it shine. That was a little kid's song. And
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: we go up there singing it, man. And one time
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: we got through singing, my mama asked me, because she
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: was Sunday schools just Steve. Do you know what that
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: means now? I said yeah, And she said, what doesn't mean? Said?
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  Speaker 1: I want to shine my light? She said, do you
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  Speaker 1: know what the light is referring to? I said, yeah,
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: like a flashlight? You know, because I'm a little boy,
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: what I know? She said, no, it's your attitude. She said,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: you want to be a person when you grow up
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: that when you walk in the room, that you represent light,
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: that people are glad when you walk in the room.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: Then she used an example. She said, you know sister Patterson.
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  Speaker 1: I said yes, ma'am. She said, you ever noticed when
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: she walked in how everybody feel? I say, they'd be sad. Mama,
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: she said, that's right. You know why I said no,
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: She said, because she's negative. She said, but do you
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: know how you feel her sister Abigail come in the room.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: I like Abigail, she said, everybody like it. You know
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: why because she liked And she was just trying to
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  Speaker 1: teach me, in her own simple way, as a Sunday
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  Speaker 1: school teacher, of how to be And you know, it
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: really was. And as I grew up and I got older,
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: I remembered that song, this little light of mine, I'm
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: gonna let it shine. And I've tried to live my life.
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  Speaker 1: I've not always accomplished it, but I've tried to live
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: my life. So when I walk in the room, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't ever want to walk in the room and
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: people go, oh man, here he come, oh man, what
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: he wants? And all of you know people like that,
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: all of you know someone that every time they come
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: in the room, man, you got to go here comes
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: so and so. That's why they have that saying before
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: somebody come over there, the question is who all over there?
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: That's the first question, Hey man, you're coming through? Who
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: all over there? Because they want to check to see
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: if I'm walking into a light situation or i might
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: having this great day and I'm gonna have to walk
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: into some darkness. I choose to be light, man. We
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: all choose to be light. Here. We come on this
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: show in the morning to be light. This ain't a dark,
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: gloomy show you tune into because we all of us
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: recognize the fact that we have to provide a light
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: no matter how day is going, no matter what bad
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: news we got the night before. When we clicked this
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: mic in the morning, we are the Steve Harvey Morning Show,
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: and we got to be light. Now, let me tell
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: you so, we feel the same woes and pains you
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: feel it. We saw what they did to Aubrey. We
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: saw what they did there George Floyd. We saw what
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: having Brianna Taylor. But see, I'm sixty four years old.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: I saw what they did to mar Luther King. I
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: saw what they did to Emmitt Till. I saw what
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: they did to all these people. Man, I've been hearing
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: about this stuff my whole life. I saw what they
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: did to my grandfather. I saw what they did to
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: my father. I saw what they did to my mother.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: I saw what I'm old enough I saw colored only
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: water fountains. I'd have seen it. But in spite of
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: all that, I choose to live my life as light.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: I'm not fitting the lecting. People who hateful and bigoted
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: ruined me to where I become hateful and bigoted. Now
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: I'm walking around. Ain't nobody glad to see me. I'm
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: not gonna do that. Your hatred to me now, I'm
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: not gonna tolerate your hatred to me. Don't get me wrong,
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  Speaker 1: But I choose to be light. I'm asking everybody be
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: a light wherever you go and thank you for caring.
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  Speaker 1: Those are my clothes. Remark. Happy m l K Day
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: to everybody out there be some light today, all right.
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