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MLK Day, I Have a Dream, Mountain Top, Drum Major Instinct and more. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Y'all know what time of y'all don't know y'all bat
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  Speaker 1: water to the water go come come on your back, huh,
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  Speaker 1: I sure will. Good morning everybody. You are listening to
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  Speaker 1: the voice? Oh, come on dig me now, one and
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  Speaker 1: only Steve Harvey Man got a radio show, Boil Boil boy.
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  Speaker 1: I can't even tell you man. I've been doing some
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  Speaker 1: thinking and and one of the things that I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to mention today to you as one of the principles
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  Speaker 1: of success being grateful at all times. It's difficult to do.
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  Speaker 1: Being grateful at all times. It's very difficult to do.
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  Speaker 1: I find that to be true with myself. Now there
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  Speaker 1: are others that might be able to do it, but
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  Speaker 1: just just from talking and listening and and and living
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  Speaker 1: and learning, being grateful at all times is difficult to do.
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  Speaker 1: But it's necessary because it's such an act of faith
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  Speaker 1: in knowing that no matter what's going on, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be all right. And it's hard to see that
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  Speaker 1: when things are not going in your favor, when things
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  Speaker 1: have turned so dramatically the other way, and it seems
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  Speaker 1: as though you're the only one in the situation where
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  Speaker 1: you're involved with other people, or someone got an accusation
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  Speaker 1: against you falsely, or somebody trying to do something to
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  Speaker 1: you unjustifiably, whatever the case may be. When it's happening
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  Speaker 1: to you, it does appear to you that, oh, my goodness, man,
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  Speaker 1: this is horribly one sided. So it is difficult, it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to do to be grateful at all times, but
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  Speaker 1: it's so necessary, and I just I just want to
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  Speaker 1: point out a couple of things to you. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: the difficult in being grateful in hard times is that
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  Speaker 1: number one, the present circumstances. Oftentimes it's just so pressing
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  Speaker 1: and so overwhelming that a lot of your energy is
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  Speaker 1: devoted to trying to come up with the solution for that,
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  Speaker 1: or trying to muster the strength to whether the storm,
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  Speaker 1: or trying to just brace yourself to try to get
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  Speaker 1: through it, and in doing that, you don't it's hard
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  Speaker 1: to be grateful. It's hard to be grateful in pain,
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  Speaker 1: and I know it is. But here is the trick
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  Speaker 1: for me. This is what I've had to learn how
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  Speaker 1: to do, and I guess it takes practice to get here.
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  Speaker 1: It's not nothing you can just start doing right away.
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  Speaker 1: You got to practice it in small increments to really
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  Speaker 1: get it. What I've always had to say to myself
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  Speaker 1: and what I've learned to say to myself is this
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  Speaker 1: is happening to me because God is working me through something.
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  Speaker 1: This is happening to me because there's some form of
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  Speaker 1: tests that I have to pass in order to graduate
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  Speaker 1: to the next grade, that in order to be allowed
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  Speaker 1: to move to the next level. This is happening to
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  Speaker 1: me because there's something I need to purge my life,
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  Speaker 1: of my body, of my spirit, of something's purging in me.
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  Speaker 1: And when you purge something, it's it's painful. You know,
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  Speaker 1: It's like a person getting off drugs. The withdrawal is agonizing.
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  Speaker 1: I've been told and every documentary I've ever watched it
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  Speaker 1: it's an agonizing process to go cold turkey, to withdraw,
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  Speaker 1: to pull away after you've been doing something so long.
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  Speaker 1: And so I know that this process is tough when
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  Speaker 1: you're going through some pain. But when you're purging your system,
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  Speaker 1: when you're when you having to pass a test, when
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  Speaker 1: you're about to make when you're being made ready for
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  Speaker 1: the next level, that moment right in there, in realizing
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  Speaker 1: that that's what's happening, that's where you find the gratitude.
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  Speaker 1: That's where I found the gratitude. I hope I'm explaining
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  Speaker 1: this correctly. I'm gonna keep trying until I get it.
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  Speaker 1: But that's where you find the gratitude. The second part
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  Speaker 1: of it is is that God has never left me
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  Speaker 1: in all the things I've done, in all the mistakes
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  Speaker 1: I've made, all the lies I've told, all the situations
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  Speaker 1: I've gotten myself into, from being greedy and wanting too
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  Speaker 1: much for me at the expense sometimes of other people,
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  Speaker 1: not doing it deliberately or in a vindictive way, because
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  Speaker 1: I've never had that spirit. I'm not a vindictive or
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  Speaker 1: mean person, but sometimes in my life, in wanting to
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  Speaker 1: do what I wanted to do, I didn't totally weigh
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  Speaker 1: out the cause and effect of the other person. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: can't just be real with you with that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: how many times we hadn't all done that? Look, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't don't make you a bad person. You know, good
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  Speaker 1: people do bad things all the time. I just happened
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  Speaker 1: to have come to the realization that unknowingly and and
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  Speaker 1: not and not with malice intent towards a person. I've
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  Speaker 1: heard people looking at something I wanted to do without
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  Speaker 1: really looking at what the cause and effect would be
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  Speaker 1: on the other person. So in doing some of these things,
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  Speaker 1: I've created situations for myself. But God, through his grace
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  Speaker 1: and mercy, has allowed me to even get beyond that.
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  Speaker 1: So what I'm saying that God has never left me
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  Speaker 1: in spite of myself. He's always gotten me through. So
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  Speaker 1: that's the other part of it too. See that no
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  Speaker 1: matter what you're going through, you've got to understand that
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  Speaker 1: God has always gotten you through it, now, hasn't it.
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  Speaker 1: Now that may not be the way you want it
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  Speaker 1: or the way you liked, but guess what, you can't
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  Speaker 1: do wrong and not pay for that. Now that that's
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  Speaker 1: not how this works, That's never going to be the case.
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  Speaker 1: But the great thing about God is he fires warning
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  Speaker 1: shots at us all the time. He gives us an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to stop. You know, he don't fully punish us
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  Speaker 1: right away every time we do something wrong, now does it?
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  Speaker 1: You know eventually you're going to get caught doing whatever
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  Speaker 1: it is you're doing. You do understand that, don't you.
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  Speaker 1: But the first time, that close call, that was a
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  Speaker 1: warning shot for you to stop. Look, I know you're
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  Speaker 1: not perfect. I know we all sent us down here,
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  Speaker 1: so I know you're gonna make mistakes. One time. I
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  Speaker 1: know you was looking at her when you wasn't supposed to.
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  Speaker 1: I know you said something to him when you wasn't
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  Speaker 1: supposed I know you got with her when you know
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  Speaker 1: you wasn't supposed to. And I know you got with
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  Speaker 1: him when you know you wasn't supposed to. So I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna fire warning
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  Speaker 1: shot and maybe you'll slow your roll this time. But
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  Speaker 1: we keep on though, see see see that's what happens.
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  Speaker 1: See we just keep on and then the next thing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we get caught. Now, old Lord, have mercy,
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  Speaker 1: I won't out of this. Yeah. Well see you didn't
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  Speaker 1: dug this hole pretty deep, and he gonna get you out.
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  Speaker 1: But there's some things that's got to go down now
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  Speaker 1: because you didn't pay attention to the warning shot. See,
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  Speaker 1: had you stopped the first time, you felt bad about
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  Speaker 1: it and said you wasn't gonna do it no more.
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  Speaker 1: The situation wouldn't be as critical. But because we don't stop,
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  Speaker 1: and we go again. But God always for gives, He
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  Speaker 1: always allows us to get back up again. He always
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  Speaker 1: gives us mercy. He always gives us his grace. He
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  Speaker 1: always does that. You're listening, ladies and gentlemen, man have
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  Speaker 1: your attention please on this very very special day. Today
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Shirley Starfield. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Shirley wants to say that's a true statement. Yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 1: King holiday right after this. You're listening right now, here's
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  Speaker 1: a drum majorst speech on the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
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  Speaker 1: An instinct. It's a kind of drum major instinct, a
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  Speaker 1: desire to be out front, a desire to lead the parade,
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  Speaker 1: a desire to be first. It is something that runs
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  Speaker 1: a whole gamut of life. And so before we condemn them,
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  Speaker 1: let us see that we all have the drum major instinct.
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  Speaker 1: We all want to be important, to surpass others, to
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  Speaker 1: achieve distinction, to lead the parade. Alfred Adler, the great psychoanalyst,
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  Speaker 1: contends that this is the dominant impulse. Sigmund Fraud used
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  Speaker 1: to contend that sex was the dominant impulse, and adlacame
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  Speaker 1: with a new argument, saying that this quest for recognition,
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  Speaker 1: this desire for attention, this desire for distinction, is the
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  Speaker 1: basic impulse, the basic drive of human human life, this
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  Speaker 1: drum major instinct. And you know, we begin earlier to
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  Speaker 1: ask life to put us first. Our first cry as
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  Speaker 1: a baby was a bid for the tension, and all
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  Speaker 1: through childhood the drum major impulse or instinct is a
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  Speaker 1: major obsession. Children ask life to grant them first place.
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  Speaker 1: They are a little bundle of ego. They have innately
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  Speaker 1: the drum major instinct. Now an adult life, we still
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  Speaker 1: have it, and we really never get by it. We
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  Speaker 1: like to do something good, and you know, we like
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  Speaker 1: to be praised for it. Now, if you don't believe that,
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  Speaker 1: you just go on living life, and you will discover
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  Speaker 1: very soon that you like to be praised. Everybody likes it,
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  Speaker 1: as a matter of fact. And somehow this warm glow
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  Speaker 1: we feel when we are praised or when our name
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  Speaker 1: is in print is something of the vitamin aide to
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  Speaker 1: our ego. Nobody is unhappy when they are praised, even
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  Speaker 1: if they know they don't deserve it, and even if
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  Speaker 1: they don't believe it. The only unhappy people about praise
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  Speaker 1: is when that praise is going too much towards somebody else.
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  Speaker 1: But everybody likes to be praised because of this real
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  Speaker 1: drum major instinct. Do you know that a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the race problem them grows out of the drum major instinct,
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  Speaker 1: A need that some people have to feel superior, a
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  Speaker 1: need 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
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  Speaker 1: Mississippis said that God was a child, a member or
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  Speaker 1: the White Citizens Council. 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, a kind of superiority. And think
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  Speaker 1: of what has happened in historism as a result, this
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  Speaker 1: perverted use of the drum major instinct led to the
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  Speaker 1: most tragic prejudice, the most tragic expressions of man's inhumanity
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  Speaker 1: to man. I mean, not only does this thing going
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  Speaker 1: to 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 doesn't 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 suicidal thrust that we see
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  Speaker 1: in the world today. None of us are going to
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  Speaker 1: be around because somebody is gonna make the mistake through
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  Speaker 1: our senseless 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. 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 a city as bigg as New York in
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  Speaker 1: three seconds with everybody ripe 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 German major instinct.
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  Speaker 1: I must be first, I must be supreme all a
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  Speaker 1: nation 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 have committed more war crimes almost an
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  Speaker 1: inny nation in the world. And I'm going to continue
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  Speaker 1: to say it, and we won't stop it because of
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  Speaker 1: our pride and I Aracan sas the nation. But God
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  Speaker 1: has a way of even put nations in that place.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody here, here's a fact of no matter. Doctor Martin
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  Speaker 1: Luther King Junior's speech to drum major instinct speech. It
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  Speaker 1: was actually delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: on February fourth, nineteen sixty eight, and throughout all of
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  Speaker 1: his years of public service, doctor Mark Luther King Junior
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  Speaker 1: encouraged everybody to participate in community service. You're listening show,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the ride. We will continue with more
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  Speaker 1: of doctor King the drum major instinct speech. Nobody is
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  Speaker 1: unhappy when they are praised, even if they know they
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  Speaker 1: don't deserve it, and even if they don't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: The only unhappy people about praise is when that praise
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  Speaker 1: is going too much towards somebody else. But everybody likes
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  Speaker 1: to be praised because of this real drum major instinct.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know that a lot of the race problem
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: grows out of the drum major instinct? A need that
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  Speaker 1: some people have to feel superior. I need that some
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  Speaker 1: people have to feel that they are first, and to
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  Speaker 1: feel that their white skin ordain them to be first.
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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 of 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 us a kind of divinity,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: a kind of superiority. And think of what has happened
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  Speaker 1: in historism as a result, this perverted use of the
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: drum mage instinct led to the most tragic prejudice, the
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  Speaker 1: most tragic expressions of man's inhumanity to man. I mean,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: not only does this thing go into the racial struggle,
• 22:53
  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
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: done bringing into this suicide who thrust that we see
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: in the world today. None of us are gonna be
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: around because somebody is gonna make the mistake through our
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: senseless blunderings, of dropping a nuclear bomb somewhere, and then
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: another one is gonna drop. And don't let anybody fool you.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: This can happen within a matter of seconds. They have
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: twenty megaton bombs in Russia right now that can destroy
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: US city as big as New York in three seconds
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  Speaker 1: without everybody wiped away in every building. And we can
• 24:03
  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 German 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 going to continue to say it to America
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  Speaker 1: because I love this country too much to see the
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  Speaker 1: drift that it has taken. God didn't call America to
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  Speaker 1: do what she's doing in the world now. God didn't
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war as
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  Speaker 1: a war in Vietnam, and we are criminals in that war.
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  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,
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  Speaker 1: and we won't stop it the course of our pride.
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  Speaker 1: And I Ragan says the nation. But God has a
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  Speaker 1: way of even putting nations in that place. The God
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  Speaker 1: that I worship has a way of saying, don't play
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  Speaker 1: with me. He has a way of saying. Is the
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  Speaker 1: God of the Old Testament used to say the Hebrews
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  Speaker 1: don't play with me? Isram, don't play with Smith Babylon.
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  Speaker 1: Be still and know that I'm God. If you don't
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  Speaker 1: stuff your reckless course, I'll rise up and break the
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  Speaker 1: backbone of your power. That can happen to America. Every
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: nine then I go back and read Gibbons Decline and
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: fall of the Roman Empire. And when I come and
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: look at America, I say to myself, the parallels of frightening.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: We have perverted the drum made instinct. Every nine then,
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  Speaker 1: I guess we all think realistically about that day when
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: we will be victimized with what is life's final common denominator.
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  Speaker 1: That's something we call death. We all think about it
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  Speaker 1: the never nine then I think about my own death,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: and I think about my own funeral, and I don't
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: think of it in a morbid sense every nine. Then
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: I asked myself, what is it that I would want say?
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: And I leave the word to you this morning. If
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: any of you around when I have to meet my day,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: I don't want a long funeral. And if you get
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: somebody to deliver the unite to tell them not to
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: talk to you none every nine, then I wonder what
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: I want him to say. Tell him not to mention
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  Speaker 1: that I have a Nobel Peace Prize. That isn't important.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Tell him not to mention that I have three or
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: four hundred other awards that's not important. Tell him not
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  Speaker 1: to mention where I went to school. I like somebody
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  Speaker 1: to mention that day that Marderin Luther King Junior tried
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  Speaker 1: to give his life serving of us. I'd like for
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: somebody to say that day that Martin Luther King Junior
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: tried to love somebody. I want you to say that
• 27:32
  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
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: did try in my life to call those who were naked.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I want you to say on that day that I
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: did try in my life to visit thals who were imprisoned.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to say that I try to love
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  Speaker 1: and serve humanity. Yes, if you want to say that
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  Speaker 1: I was a drum major, say that I was a
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  Speaker 1: drum major for justice, Say that I was a drum
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  Speaker 1: major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: And all of the other shall of things will nothing matter.
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  Speaker 1: I won't have any money to leave behind, I won't
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: But I just want to leave I committed life behind,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: and that's all I want to say. If I can
• 28:36
  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
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: in vain. If I can do my duty as a
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  Speaker 1: Christian arc, if I can bring salvation to a war
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: who wants wrought, If I can read the message as
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: the Master talked, then my living we'll not be in vain.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: We'll be back. You're listening, all right, guys. Today is
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: King Holiday. Happy King Day everyone. We are celebrating as
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: we always do on this day. You know what, Let's
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: start with the Morning crew and just talk about what
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: the legacy of doctor Martin Luther King means to you, Steve,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, simply put, for me growing up, I mean,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: he was everything as a young black boy. I wasn't
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: even a teenager yet, I was just a black boy.
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  Speaker 1: I learned everything from him, from my parents. I remember
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: what happened in the community when he was killed. I
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: remember Miss Blandon making us watch the funeral. She bought
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: a black and white TV up to the school and
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: we watched the mule drawn coffin being pulled up the
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  Speaker 1: street in DC. You know, we're ten eleven years old.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we're sitting there going what they did? What?
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  Speaker 1: And then I remember all the old black people crying.
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  Speaker 1: I was just sitting there, going, man, why did they
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: do this? Because here's a man. All he ever talked
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: about was, you know, holding hands and sharing and loving
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: and the speech in sixty four. I remember that we
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: had to learn it in school, certain pieces of it
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: in plays. And so when they killed him, I was confused.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I did not understand why this man had to die.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: And then when you hear all black people say stuff
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: like white people don't want us to have nothing I mean,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: and you you're talking in the sixties now, a statement
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: like that was a very very acceptable statement. And older
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: black people just made a statement that white people don't
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: want us to have nothing, and they were devastated. It
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: was the most devastating moment as a black person that
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I remembered the community and then the riots erupted. So
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: you're talking about sixty eight, man, you're talking about I'm eleven,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: and I'm hearing these things and I'm I'm forming decisions.
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  Speaker 1: And it caused me to feel for a number of
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: years a certain kind of way about his death. And
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I was not handling it as what he lived his
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: life for and live in peace and harmony and togetherness
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: and love. No, man, I went the other way. They
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: killed us that they killed him, They killed our dream,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: they killed our leader. They don't want us to have nothing.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: That's a horrible position to put eleven year old kid in.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: I'm watching my mama cry. My father man ain't never cried.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: He was so mad. Man. And my brothers, my brothers
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: was different. Man. My brothers was panthers and nationalists and
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: they went to work. They was different. So that him,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: his life legacy became more to me later on. But
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: in the beginning, man, it was a devastating thing, and
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I just thought that it was the end for us.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: And uh, but his words resonnated that we as a
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: people will get to the mountaintop. I may not get
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: that weak, but we as a people will get into
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: the mountaintop. And I started trying to understand what he
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: was talking about then, and he was pulling for black
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: people so hard, so hard speech. Martin Luther King, to me,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: was the greatest orator, orator. I like orator, Shirley. Okay,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: don you say what you like. I'm just telling you, Junior. Yes,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: I think that's right. He's the greatest one orator. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was gonna be with you said it right,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: show us was looking at me, She was looking at me.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Oh she had to press on. Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah, Tommy,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: what was he greatest gener right off all time? It's
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: so stupid, man, Steve Harvey FM on Instagram and Facebook
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: and and let us know what doctor King's legacy means
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: to you. Okay, all right, Steve, time now for today's
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: headlines on this King holiday. Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Anne Trip,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: thank you very much. Good morning, everybody. Yesterday is Doctor
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Martin Luther King Junior Day, a day we honor his
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: life and legacy. Had he lived, doctor King would have
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: been ninety one years old this month. They are commemorations
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: to mark the day in cities and towns all over
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: the country. They are even events in other countries. For instance,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: in England they're holding a definite ceremonies to honor doctor King.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Security has been ramped up today at the Virginia state
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: capital ahead of today's expected gun rights rally. Thousands of
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: planning to hold a huge demonstration and rich to protest
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: proposed gun restrictions. The three white racists were supposed to
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: attend it, they're under arrest. Virginia Governor Rolph and the
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Northerm's already declared a state of emergency. No weapons will
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: be allowed on the capitol grounds. No one wants another
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: incident like the one we saw in Charlottesville in two
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: and seventeen. Of course, he's referring to the White Power
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: rally where a racists purposely plowed his car into a
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: group of counter demonstrators, killing an innocent young woman. The
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Senate impeachment trial against Donald J. Trump is scheduled to
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: begin tomorrow. Prosecution as well as defense attorneys have already
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: followed their first legal breeze in President Trump Senate impeachment trial.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: The briefs are going to serve as previews of the
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: arguments they're going to be making today. Later today, a
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Navy aircraft carry is going to be named after a
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: black American World War Two hero, Dorry Miller. Back then,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Blacks are only allowed to serve as kitchen help and
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: servants on ships. Dorry Miller was a mess attendant on
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: the battleship West Virginia, but on the mor of December seventh,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: nineteen forty one, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. As the
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: ship drew heavy fire, Miller raced to the deck to
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: assist the ship's fatally wounded commanding officer and to help
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: other officers who were wounded to get under and below decks.
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  Speaker 1: He went up to a machine gun he had no
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: training on at all, commandeered it and shot down enemy planes.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Dorry Miller was awarded the Navy Cross after there was
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: a hue and cry because the Secretary of the Navy
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: would not even mention his name. But after a while
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: the President stepped in and said no, this man should
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: be honored. So then Dorry Miller was then awarded the
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Navy Cross, the second highest military decoration, becoming the first
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: African American to be so honored. After Dorry Miller served
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: bore the Indianapolis. After that on the escort carrier the
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Liscomb Bay in nineteen forty three, where Miller was killed
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: when the Liscomb Bay was attacked and sank by the Japanese,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: he was awarded the Purple Heart. Top side the box
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: office was Bad Boys for Life, by what You're Gonna Do? Well,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: they made a million dollars. Now back to Steve Harvey
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Morning Show. You're listening to all right, We're going to
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: talk about racism. Steve the Social Injustices. This is your
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty. We are in a brand new year, brand
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: new decade. We have all witnessed racial incidents so much
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: of the time. A lot of Americans believe that President
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Trump has made race relations worse and that they believe
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: it's more common for people to express racist views now
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: since Trump has become president. What do you think. It's
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: very simple. Racism exists today because there are those who
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: want things to go back the way they were, who
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: never accepted any form of change, was not in agreement
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: or participation with civil rights, cares nothing about affirmative action,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: and wants to be in complete control and power. And
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: that is why racism exists. That's why policies exist, That's
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: why voter suppression and exists. That's why districting exists. That's
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: why they keep poorness census and we don't feel them out,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: and they use that against us. They do everything in
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: their power the system to keep racism alive and will
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: And that's why racism exists is because there are certain
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: people who will not let the way things were go
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: and subside, and the only way for them to feel
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: superior is to make other people feel inferior. Period. Yeah,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: I mean it's true that the president, since he's become
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: the president of race relations, do seem worth now in
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: America than they've ever been. And I guess what we
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: have to do. You know, we have a right to vote,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: and we should exercise that right and let him know
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: we do not approve of what he's doing in office,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: and we do that by voting. And this is a
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: year that we cast office speech. The whole climate change.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: It made people think that are in groups that are
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: not for the welfare of all made them feel validated.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: They felt like one of us is now there. And
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: based on some of the statements and policies he was doing,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: banning seven million million, I mean seven Muslim countries from travel,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: all of this type of stuff. They like that type
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: of stuff. The sad thing in this country is thirty
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: eight to forty million people who vote are going to
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: vote for him. Again. Well, Steve, we have to do
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: our job like we always do. And if you don't
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: think you're gonna run into or meet one of them
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: forty million people, you are sad together all right. Kids, schools,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: they're at the ball game right there, sitting next to you. Yeah,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: like that. On the flights they full of first class.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh god. And that's where I mean. We
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: have to do what we do and just encourage people
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: to get out and vote. We got to vote strong.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Just when Obama was roast. The only way this has
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: a chance. If enough people vote, it can change. Yeah,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: absolutely it can. All right. When we come back from
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: the break at thirty two after the hour, we're gonna
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: play President Obama's March on Washington fiftieth anniversary speech from
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: back in twenty thirteen. That's coming up right after this.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: You're listening too. Happy King Day everyone, It's the King
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Holiday where we celebrate the life and legacy of doctor
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Martin Luther King Junior. Now, do you guys remember back
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen when President Obama delivered the remarks at
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: the let Freedom Ring ceremony. Remember? Remember everything? It was
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: a good old day. What's you say, Tommy? I remember everything,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: every single everything, every tie, everything, every golf fleeing, every
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: beautiful speech. I remember everything, Omama. What you want to know? Well,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: I was asking, do you remember that speech? It was
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: back in twenty thirteen he did the elect Freedom Ring
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: ceremony to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the March on
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Washington at the Lincoln Memorial. Take a listen on the
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: battlefield of justice. Men and women without rank or wealth,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: or title or fame, would liberate us all in ways
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: that our children now take for granted. As people of
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: all colors and creeds live together, and learn together, and
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: walk together, and fight alongside one another, and love one
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: another and judge one another by the content of our character,
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: and this greatest nation on Earth to dismiss the magnitude
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: of this progress, to suggest, as some sometimes do, that
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: little has changed. That dishonor is the courage, the sacrifice
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: of those who paid the price to march in those years,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Medga Herrs, James Channing, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, Martin Luther
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: King Jr. They did not die in vain. Their victory
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: was great. But we would dishonor those heroes as well
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: to suggest that the work of this nation is somehow complete.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: The arch of moral universe may bend towards justice, but
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: it doesn't bend on its own. To secure the gains
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: this country has made requires constant vigilance, not complacency, whether
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: by challenging those who erect new barriers to the vote
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: or ensuring that the scales of justice work equally for all,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: and the criminal justice system is not simply a pipeline
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: from underfunded schools to overcrowded jails. It requires vigilance, and
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: we'll suffer the occasional setback, but we will win these fights.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: This country has changed too much. People of good will,
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: regardless of party, are too plentiful for those with ill
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: will to change history's currents. In some way as though
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: the securing of civil rights, voting rights, the eradication of
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: legalized discrimination, the very significance of these victories may have
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: obscured a second goal of the march. For the men
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: and women who gathered fifty years ago, we're not there
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: in search of some abstract idea. They were there seeking
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: jobs as well as justice, not just the absence of oppression,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: but the presence of economic opportunity. For what does a
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: profit of man? Doctor King would ask to sit at
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: an integrated lunch counter if you can't afford the meal.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: This idea that one's liberty is linked to one's livelihood,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: That the pursuit of happiness requires the dignity of work,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: the skills to find work, decent pain, some measure of
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: material security. This idea was I know Lincoln himself understood
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: the Declaration of Independence in such terms as a promise
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: that in due time the weights should be lifted from
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: the shoulders of all men, and that all should have
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: an equal chance. Doctor King explained that the goals of
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: African Americans we're identical to working people of all races.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: You're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show on this King holiday.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Remember back in twenty thirteen, President Obama delivered remarks at
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: the Let Freedom Ring ceremony, which was to commemorate the
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial. Boys, Steve,
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: we gotta say, we sure do miss him, don't we?
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: What what you call that dog? They had? I miss everybody,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: them two beautiful dollars. I missed everybody. Yeah, I forever
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: presidents going to the White House because it's the first time. Yes, yeah, yeah.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: Here's some more excerpts from his fabulous speech back in
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  Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. And then there were those elected officials who
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: found it useful to practice the old politics of division,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: doing their best to convince middle class Americans of a
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: great untruth that government was somehow itself to blame for
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: their growing economic insecurity. The distant bureaucrats were taking their
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: hard earned dollars to benefit the welfare cheat or the
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: illegal immigrant. And then, if we're honest with ourselves, we'll
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: admit that during the course of fifty years, there were
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: times when some of us claiming to push for change,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: lost our way. The anguish of assassinations set off self
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: defeating riots, legitimate grievances against police brutality tipped into excuse
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: making for criminal behavior. Racial politics could up both ways,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: as the transformative message of unity and brotherhood was drowned
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: out by the language of recrimination, and what had once
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: been a call for equality of opportunity, the chance for
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: all Americans to work hard and get ahead, was too
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: often framed as a mere desire for government support, as
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: if we had no agency in our own liberation, as
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: if poverty was an excuse for not raising your child
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: and the bigotry of others was reason to give up
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: on your sin. All of that history is how progress stalled.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: That's how hope was diverted, so our country remained divided.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: But the good news is, just as was true in
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three, we now have a choice. We can
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: continue down our current path, in which the gears of
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: this great democracy grind to a halt, and our children
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: accept a life of lower expectations, where politics is a
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: zero sum game where a few do very well while
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: struggling families of every race fight over a shrinking economic pie.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: That's one path, or we can have the courage to change.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: The March on Washington teaches us that we are not
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: trapped by the mistakes of history that we are masters
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: of our faith. But it also teaches us that the
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  Speaker 1: promise of this nation will only be kept when we
• 47:45
  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
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  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
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  Speaker 1: daughter in the face of a poor black child. I
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  Speaker 1: see it when the black youth thinks of his own
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  Speaker 1: grandfather in the dignified steps of an elderly white man.
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  Speaker 1: It's there when the native born recognizing that striving spirit
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  Speaker 1: of the new emperor. When the interracial couple connects the
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  Speaker 1: pain of a gay couple who are discriminated against and
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  Speaker 1: understands it as their own. That's where courage comes from.
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  Speaker 1: When we turn not from each other or on each other,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: but towards one another and we find that we do
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  Speaker 1: not walk alone, that's where courage comes from. And with
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: that courage, we can stand together for good jobs and
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  Speaker 1: just wages. With that courage, we can stand together for
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  Speaker 1: the right to healthcare in the richest nation on earth
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  Speaker 1: for every person. With that courage, we can stand together
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  Speaker 1: for the right of every child, from the corners of
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  Speaker 1: Anacosta to the hills of Appalachia, to get an education
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  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,
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  Speaker 1: we can feed the hunger, and house the homeless, and
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: transform bleak waste, lands of poverty in the fields of
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  Speaker 1: commerce and promise America. I know the road will be long,
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  Speaker 1: but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble,
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: but I know we'll get back up. That's how a
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  Speaker 1: movement happens. That's how history bends. That's how when somebody
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  Speaker 1: is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along, says,
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  Speaker 1: come on, we're marching. There's a reason why so many
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  Speaker 1: who march that day and in the days to come.
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  Speaker 1: We're young. For the young or unconstrained by habits of fear,
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: unconstrained by the conventions of what is, they dared to
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  Speaker 1: dream different, to imagine something better. And I am convinced
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: that same imagination, the same hunger of purpose, stirs in
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: this generation. We might not face the same dangers of
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three but the fierce urgency of now remains.
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  Speaker 1: We may never duplicate the swelling crowds and dazzling procession
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: of that day so long ago. No one can match
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  Speaker 1: King's brilliance. But the same flame that lit the heart
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  Speaker 1: of all who are willing to take a first step
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  Speaker 1: for justice, I know that flame remains. That tireless teacher
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  Speaker 1: who gets to class early and stays late and dips
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  Speaker 1: into her own pocket to buy supplies because she believes
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  Speaker 1: that every child is her charge. She's marching that successful
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  Speaker 1: business man who doesn't have to but pays his workers
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: a fair wage and then offers a shot to a man,
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: maybe an ex con, who's down on his love. He's
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: marching the mother who pours her love into her daughter
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: so that she grows up with the confidence to walk
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  Speaker 1: through the same doors as anybody's son. She's marching the
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  Speaker 1: father who realizes the most important job he'll ever have
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: is raising his boy right, even if he didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a father, especially if he didn't have a father at home.
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  Speaker 1: He's marching the battles, scarred veterans who devote themselves not
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: only to help and their fellow warriors, stand again, and
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: walk again, and run again, but to keep serving their country.
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  Speaker 1: When they come home, they are marching everyone who realizes
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: what those glorious patriots knew on that day. The change
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: does not come from Washington, but to Washington. The change
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: has always been built on our willingness, we the people,
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  Speaker 1: to take on the mantle of citizenship. You are merchant,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: and that's the lesson of our past. That's the promise
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: of tomorrow. In the face of impossible eyes, people who
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: love their country can change it. And when millions of
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: Americans of every race and every region, every faith, and
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: every station can join together in a spirit of brotherhood,
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: then those mountains will be made low, and those rough
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: places will be made plain, and those crooked places now
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  Speaker 1: towards grace. And we will vindicate the faith of those
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: who sacrifice so much and live up to the true
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: meaning of our creed as one nation under God, indivisible
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: with liberty injustice for all. We'll be back. You're listening show.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. Once Said that life's most
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: persistent and urgent question is what are you doing for others?
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: Coming up, we got some excerpts from doctor Kings. I've
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: been to the mountaintop speech. Let us rise up tonight
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: with a greater readiness indeeds powerful days, these days of
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: challenge to make America what it ought to be, we
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: have an opportunity to make America a better nation. And
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: I want to thank God once more for allowing me
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: to be here with you. You know, several years ago
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: I was in New York City autographing the first book
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: that I had written. While sitting the autographing books, the
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: minute black woman came up. The only question I heard
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: from all was you marderin Luther King? And I was
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: looking down writing and I said yes. The next minute
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: I felt something beating on my chest. Before I knew it,
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: I had been stabbed by this deminuted woman. I was
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: rushed to Hullum Hospital. It was a dog Saturday afternoon.
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: That blade had gone through, and the X rays revealed
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: that the tip of the blade was on the edge
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: of my order the main ottery and one such's punction.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: You drowned in your own blood. That's the end of you.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: It came out in the New York Times the next
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: morning that if I had merely sneezed, I would have died. Well.
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: About four days later they allowed me after the operation.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: After my chest had been opened and the blade had
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: been taken out. To move around in the wheelchair and
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: the hospital, they allowed me to read some of the
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: mail that came in, and from all over the states
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: and the world. Kind letters came in. I read a few,
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: but one of them I will never forget. I had
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: received one from the President and the Vice President. I'd
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: forgotten what those telegrams said. I'd received the visit and
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: a letter from the Governor of New York, but I've
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: forgotten what that letters said. But that was another letter
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: that came from a little girl, a young girl who
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: was a student at the White Plains High School. And
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: I looked at that letter. I'll never forget it. Say
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: it simply, dear Doctor King, I am a ninth grade
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: student at the White Plains High School. She said. While
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: it should not matter, I would like to mention that
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: I'm a white girl. I read in the paper of
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: your misfortune and of your suffering, and I read that
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: if you had sneezed, you would have died. I'm simply
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: writing you to say that I'm so happy that you
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: didn't sneeze, and i'd want to say the night I
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: want to say the night that I too, am happy
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: that I didn't sneeze, because if I had sneeze, I
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have been around here. In nineteen sixty when students
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: all over the South started sitting in at lunch counters,
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: and I knew that as they were sitting in, they
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: were really standing up for the best in the American
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: dream and taken the whole nation back to those great
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: weals of democracy which were dug deep by the founding
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. If
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around hid in
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: nineteen six to one when we decided to take a
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: ride for freedom and end its segregation in it to
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: state travel. If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: around here. In nineteen sixty two, when Nigros and all
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: been at Georgia decided to straighten that box up. And
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: whenever the men and women straighten that box up, they
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: are going somewhere because a man had roger back unless
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: it is bent. If I had sneezed, I had sneezed,
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been here. In nineteen six to three,
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: the black people of Birmingham Alabama aroused the conscience of
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: this nation and brought into being the Civil Rights Bill.
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  Speaker 1: If I had sneeze, I wouldn't have had a chance
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: later that year in August to try to tell America
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: about a dream that I had had. If I had sneeze,
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been down in Selma, Alabama to see
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: the Gretain movement there. If I had sneeze, I wouldn't
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: have been in Memphis to see a community rally around
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  Speaker 1: those brothers and sisters who are suffering. I'm so happy
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: that I didn't sneeze, and they were telling them now
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter now, it really doesn't matter what happens now.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: I left Atlanta this morning, and as we got started
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: on the plane that was six of us, the pilot
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: said over the public address system, we are sorry for
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: the delayed, but we have doctor mart Luther King on
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: the plane, and to be sure that all of the
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: bags were checked and to be sure that nothing would
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: be wrong on the plane, we had to check out
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: everything carefully, and we've had the plane protected and got
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: it all night. And then I got into Memphis and
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: some began to say the threats I talk about the
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: threats that were out, or what would happen to me
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: from some of our sick white brothers. Well, I don't
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead,
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: but it really doesn't matter with me now because I've
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: been to the mountaintop. I don't mind. Like anybody, I
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place,
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: but I'm not concerned about that now. I just want
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: to do God's will, and He's allowed me to go
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: up to the mountain, and I've looked over and I've
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: seen the promised Land. I may not get that with
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: you when I want you to know the night that
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: we as a people will get to the Promised Land.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: a feeling in a man. Mine eyes have seen the
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: glory all the coming of the Lord. You're listening morning
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: show coming up. We're gonna play some excerpts from Doctor
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: King's I Have a Dream speech. I am happy to
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: john with you today. And what will go down in
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: of our nation, five score years ago, a great American
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: joyous day break to end the long night of their captivity.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: But one hundred years later, the Negro steal is not free.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the negro lives
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: on a lonely island of property in the midst of
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later,
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: the negro is still languished in the corners of American
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: society and finds himself in exile in his own land.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: So we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: In a sense, we've come to our nation's capital to
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: cash a check. When the architects of our Republic wrote
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: they were signing a promise or rene to whichever the
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: American was to fall our. This note was a promise
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: at all men, Yes, black men have well as white men,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: has defaulted on this promisory note in so far as
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: a check which has come back mark insufficient funds. But
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: He refused to believe that that are insufficient funds in
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: we've come to cash this check, a check that will
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: give us a pun demand and the riches of freedom
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: and the security of justice. We have also come to
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: this hell of spot to remind the miracle of the
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: in the luxury of cooling, offer to take the tranquilizing
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: the promises of democracy. Now is the time arise from
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: path of racial justice. Now is the time from the
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: quick ends of racial and to the solid rock of brotherhood.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: Now is the time of the reality for all of
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: God's to It would be fatal for the nation to
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: the Negroes. Legitimate discontent will not pass until that is
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: an invigorating altum of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty three
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: now be content, we'll have a rude awakening. If the
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: nation returns to business as usual, that will be neither
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is grant
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: did his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds a revolt will continue
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: day of justice emerges. But that is something that I
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: must say to my people who stand on the warm
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: guilty of wrong for deeds. Let us not seek to
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: satisfy first for freedom by drinking from the cup of
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: bitterness and hatred. You're listening right now as promise, we're
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: gonna play some of doctor Kings. I have a dream
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: speech which he delivered on the steps of the Lincoln
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: Memorial back in nineteen sixty three. One day, right bad
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  Speaker 1: in Alabama, little black bars and girls will be able
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: to join hands with little white bars and white girls
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: have a dream that one day every valid shall be exalted,
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  Speaker 1: Every hill and mountains shall be made low, the rough
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: places will be made clean, and the crooked places will
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: be made straight, and the gore of the Lord shall
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: be revealed in all such shall see it together. This
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: is our hope. This is a peace that I go
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: back to the southwire. With this faith we will be
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: able to hell out of the mountain of despair a
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: stone of hoot. With this fame, we will be able
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: knowing that we will be free. One day. This will
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: be the day when all of God's children be able
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: to sing with new meaning my country tears at the
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: sweet land of liberty of bi sings land where my
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride. From every mountain side,
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  Speaker 1: Let freedom ring of Americus. To be a great nation,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: this must become true. So let freedom ring from the
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: heightening allegantes of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: cap rookis of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the carebacious
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: slaps of California. But not only that. Let freedom ring
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: from storm mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from lookout
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: mole hill of Mississippi, from every mountain fire, then freedom
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: ring and wind. It happens when we allow freedom ring.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: When we let in a ring from every village and
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: ever hamlet from every state and every city, we will
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: be able to speed up that day when all about children,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: black men and pike men, Jews and tent files, Protestants
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: and Catholic will be able to drain the hands and
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: singing the words of the old Negro spiritual, Free at Last,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: Free at Last. Thank Ptom Father that you're listening. Steve
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: Harvey Morning Show. I said, Steve, on this King Holiday.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: You know, earlier we were talking about race relations in America,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: and listen to this. More than one hundred and fifty
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: years after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the US,
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: most US adults say the legacy of slavery continues to
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: have an impact on the position of black people in
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: American society today. More than four and ten say the
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: country hasn't made enough progress toward racial equality, and there
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: is some skepticism, particularly among blacks, that black people will
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: ever have equal rights with whites, according to a new
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: Pew Research Center Pew Research Survey Center. So I'm an
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: agreement with that, really and truly. I mean, you know,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: it hasn't made enough progress. Yeah, it hasn't. But this
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: can be changed. This can be changed, but it will
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: require a massive effort on our part. We have to
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: get judges elected, We have to have to get made
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: is elected, governors, senators, congressman elected. We have to change it.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: Can't be people who don't get you making decisions about you,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: even in the court system, and so we are so
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: unjustly and over the top centers compared to anybody else
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: that it's ridiculous. And why is that because of the
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: preconceived connotations that people hold about us. We have to
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: change all of this, but it's going to take a
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: massive effort on our part to rid ourselves of those people.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: Now that will always be people always. We are never
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: going to get rid of opposition. That will never happen.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: That's that's a world that we that we set up
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: to end a long time ago, all the way back
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: to Adam and Eve that ended that world got thrown
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: out there with so it'll be with us. But we
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: can do something about it. We have to create more
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: and more and more successful people who are black, brown, yellow, red.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: It has to be more. And when you do that,
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  Speaker 1: you can bring about change here. You have to vote
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  Speaker 1: and it can You can start with yourself. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: can get yourself to the highest level you can possibly
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  Speaker 1: achieve for you. Not saying everybody got to go out
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  Speaker 1: and become millionaires or stars or nothing like that, No,
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  Speaker 1: but everybody has to get out of here and be
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  Speaker 1: productive citizens. Everybody has to get out of here and
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  Speaker 1: live as righteous a life as we can, and everybody
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  Speaker 1: got to get out of here and vote. If you
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  Speaker 1: do that, man, we can change so many things. My opinion,
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  Speaker 1: my opinion, black brown yeller what my uncle said, not own.
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  Speaker 1: So only one more statistics say that about six and
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  Speaker 1: ten African Americans say black people are treated less fairly
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  Speaker 1: than white and hiring pay and promotions, shopping in stores
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  Speaker 1: or dining in restaurants, when voting in elections. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: when seeking medical treatment as well. Oh I can tell
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  Speaker 1: you about that. Tell us, Junior, taking medicals. I get
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  Speaker 1: treated differently in the emergency room. Oh no, they sit
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  Speaker 1: there and let me sit in there and wait, we'll
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  Speaker 1: just sit in cell christ I get. I sit there
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  Speaker 1: maybe an hour before somebody come in and say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see you now. Didn't gonna determine whether I'm faking.
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  Speaker 1: They think you're fake. Oh yeah, how do you fake?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but that's their mindset. Oh he don't
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  Speaker 1: want nothing about some drugs. That's what he's in. That's
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  Speaker 1: the problem. Yeah, yeah, that's what did my blood want
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  Speaker 1: to come back? They may come back with a different statement.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well he's not playing, Wow, Junior, I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 1: People in first class. So what do you do? What
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  Speaker 1: the hell do you do? Right? What do you do?
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  Speaker 1: And the same survey, white people tend to say that
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  Speaker 1: black people and white people are treated about equally. Very
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  Speaker 1: small shares say white people are treated less fairly than
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  Speaker 1: black people. What they say white people are treat it
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  Speaker 1: less fairly. A small percentage say that white people are
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  Speaker 1: treated less fairly white. That's small percentage. I have some
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  Speaker 1: people they could ride with just for six hours. I
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  Speaker 1: got some people you could ride with for six hours,
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  Speaker 1: and I want you to see how they're treated. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Every Morning show. Right after this, you're listening to Steven Show.
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  Speaker 1: As the Bows told, we commit to a life of
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  Speaker 1: service because doctor King. One of my favorite cults from
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  Speaker 1: him is not everybody can be famous, but everybody can
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  Speaker 1: be great because greatness is determined by service. King, Holiday
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  Speaker 1: is what are you doing to serve others? Steve? Of course,
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: you and your wife Marjorie always give back your foundation
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: to Steve and Marjorie Harvey Foundation. Most recently this past
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: holiday season, your family gave aways lots and lots and
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: lots of toys to a whole bunch of families in Africa.
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  Speaker 1: We saw that on social media, of course. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, look, it's it's a way of life, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a part of it. If you don't do it,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how I could justify my existence. I
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: really don't, you know. But at the same time, if
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  Speaker 1: you're not fortunate enough to help anybody right now, your
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: goal should be to just be able to get yourself
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  Speaker 1: in a position where maybe the following year you'll be
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  Speaker 1: able to do something. You know, prayer changes things, People's
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  Speaker 1: lives turn around, people get it together. You never know,
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: the light switch comes on. It's encouraging for everybody to understand.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't want it to be like how much
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  Speaker 1: we do. I'm so fortunate that God bless us us
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  Speaker 1: to be able to do something. That's that's the real
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  Speaker 1: gift right there, that I am able to help somebody else,
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  Speaker 1: And I'm God for that and want everybody else to
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  Speaker 1: just keep your faith because it can fip around for you,
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  Speaker 1: it can happen to you. That's right. That's right again.
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  Speaker 1: Happy King Day. This is the day we celebrate the
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  Speaker 1: life and legacy of doctor Martin Luther King Junior. You're
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  Speaker 1: listening to show. Happy King Day everyone. It's the King
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  Speaker 1: Holiday where we celebrate the life and legacy of doctor
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  Speaker 1: Martin Luther King Junior. Now, do you guys remember back
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  Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen when President Obama delivered the remarks at
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  Speaker 1: the let Freedom Ring ceremony. Remember remember everything? It was
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: a good old day. Everything. What you say, Tommy, I
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  Speaker 1: remember everything about every single everything, every tie, every super
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  Speaker 1: every golf swing, every beautiful speech. I remember everything. I
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  Speaker 1: don't Mama, what you want to know? Well, I was asking,
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  Speaker 1: do you remember that speech? It was back in twenty
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  Speaker 1: thirteen he did the elect Freedom Ring ceremony to commemorate
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  Speaker 1: the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington at the
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  Speaker 1: Lincoln Memorial. Take a listen on the battlefield of justice.
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  Speaker 1: Men and women without rank or wealth, or title or fame,
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  Speaker 1: would liberate us all in ways that our children now
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  Speaker 1: take for granted. As people of all colors and creeds
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  Speaker 1: live together, and learn together, and walk together, and fight
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  Speaker 1: alongside one another, and love one another and judge one
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  Speaker 1: another by the content of our character, and this greatest
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  Speaker 1: nation on earth, to dismiss the magnitude of this progress,
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  Speaker 1: to suggest, as some sometimes do that little has changed.
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  Speaker 1: That dishonor is the courage and the sacrifice of those
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  Speaker 1: who paid the price to march in those years, Medga Harhurst,
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  Speaker 1: James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, Martin Luther King Jr.
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  Speaker 1: They did not die in vain. Their victory was great.
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  Speaker 1: But we would dishonor those heroes as well to suggest
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  Speaker 1: that the work of this nation is somehow complete. The
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  Speaker 1: arch of moral universe may bend towards justice, but it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't bend on its own. To secure the gains this
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  Speaker 1: country has made requires constant vigilance, not complacency, whether by
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: challenging those who erect new barriers to the vote or
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: ensuring that the scales of justice work equally for all.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: And the criminal justice system is not simply a pipeline
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: from underfunded schools to overcrowded jails. It requires vigilance. You're
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  Speaker 1: listening to show, all right, Steve. We all know we've
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  Speaker 1: talked about it in the show, and we talk about
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  Speaker 1: it quite often, the divide that is in this country.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, we need reform, we need healing, we need
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  Speaker 1: lots of things. And one of the ways we can
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  Speaker 1: do that is by casting our vote, amongst other things.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Doctor King once said the time is always
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  Speaker 1: right to do what is right. I love that quote.
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  Speaker 1: So as we celebrate Doctor King Day today his life
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  Speaker 1: and his legacy, make this day a day of service
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  Speaker 1: and make a difference in your community. Steve, Yeah, you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know it's I've been had so many of these
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  Speaker 1: Mark Luther King days and had so many days of memories,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because like for me, like I said earlier,
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  Speaker 1: this happened in sixty eight so and I've dealt with
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  Speaker 1: it on several different levels, and for many years it
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  Speaker 1: was just this time of the year was very angry
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  Speaker 1: time for me, you know, because they killed a hero
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  Speaker 1: of ours and how could they and there was no
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  Speaker 1: remorse for it, and then there was no justifying who
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: really did it, and so forth and so on. But
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  Speaker 1: as I got older, I came to understand what Marl
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  Speaker 1: Luther King was really about and what he was trying
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  Speaker 1: to get us to see, and how his life was
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  Speaker 1: taken at such an early age, but it had such
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  Speaker 1: an impact on the world globally, and you know, you know,
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: look not just naturally, so I mean, as as I
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  Speaker 1: look at it now, I understand what he was trying
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  Speaker 1: to do, and he was one of the great leaders
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  Speaker 1: of our time. And I just I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: this is acceptable to say, but I just don't think
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  Speaker 1: that we've had a leader of that magnitude since him,
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  Speaker 1: not for our community. We've had people who've made contributions.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, you know Obama made a contribution, major contribution
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  Speaker 1: by coming to president. You know, there were people your
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  Speaker 1: Al Sharpton has made contributions. You know, it's been to people.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to get into NACA. I want to
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  Speaker 1: think I'm trying to just single only people, but just
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  Speaker 1: off the top of that, people have made contributions, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's important for us all to realize that
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  Speaker 1: all of us can make a contribution. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: to be famous or rich to make a contribution, because
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  Speaker 1: Marl Luther King was not a rich man. Gandhi was
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  Speaker 1: not a rich man. Mother Teresa was not a rich woman.
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  Speaker 1: But the contribution that they made, and I think that's
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  Speaker 1: a message for all of us that no matter who
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  Speaker 1: you are and where you are in life, you can
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  Speaker 1: make You can make a contribution. You can affect one
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  Speaker 1: child's life. Every woman that sees a girl going astraight,
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  Speaker 1: if you pulled her to the side and just said, hey, look,
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  Speaker 1: I like to invite you to my home just to
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  Speaker 1: share with you some things, because you look like you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a fine young lady. Sometimes young girls have
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  Speaker 1: never heard that, and so you see them doing the
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  Speaker 1: wrong thing, and maybe you can pull them to the
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  Speaker 1: side and be encouraging. Same thing with boys. A young man,
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  Speaker 1: let me talk to you where you're headed in life?
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  Speaker 1: You look like you got something on the ball. What's
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  Speaker 1: going on with you? It don't always work, but I've
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  Speaker 1: seen it work time and time and time again. And
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  Speaker 1: all of us as individuals can make a contribution to
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  Speaker 1: this thing. We can live our lives where we affect
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  Speaker 1: the life. If you don't have the money to have
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  Speaker 1: a mentor in Cambra brain, hundreds of boys down there.
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  Speaker 1: It's fine. Can't you have one boy over, just one?
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  Speaker 1: Can't you take one boy to the park, just one?
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  Speaker 1: Can't you go down to boys and girls club and
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  Speaker 1: adopt become a big brother to one boy one girl.
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  Speaker 1: That's all it takes. Man. And on the last thing,
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  Speaker 1: I like to say, it's just the fathers. This probably
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  Speaker 1: ain't the tone for Mark Luther King Day. But if
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  Speaker 1: every father would be a daddy, we wouldn't have to
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  Speaker 1: have mentoring camps at all. So fathers, just take some
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  Speaker 1: time out contact your child. If you ain't been present, apologize. Women,
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  Speaker 1: stop holding for those of you that's doing that. Stopped
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  Speaker 1: holding the children as pawns in the relationship. If you
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  Speaker 1: don't pay this money, you ain't seeing the baby. Look.
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  Speaker 1: I know men who have been embarrassed by that, to
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  Speaker 1: the hundreds and thousands. I was in that position one
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  Speaker 1: time in my life where I was embarrassed. Why I
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: couldn't take care of my family. But I ask God
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  Speaker 1: to help me to pick me up and get me
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  Speaker 1: on my feet. Why I could be what I was
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: supposed to be. But I was very fortunate in that
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  Speaker 1: I didn't not have an exit my first wife, who
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  Speaker 1: held the children as pawns. She was always a great
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  Speaker 1: mother in that regard, saying, look, whatever you need to do,
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  Speaker 1: get yourself together, see these kids. Okay. Cool. So I
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  Speaker 1: got myself together and I had a chance to. But
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  Speaker 1: if you are a woman's using kids as palms, stop
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  Speaker 1: doing that. Let this man see them childs. Because it
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: ain't the money the child is looking for. It's the companionship,
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: it's the love, It's the feeling of being able to say,
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  Speaker 1: I talk to my daddy. This a picture of me
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  Speaker 1: and my daddy. Do you know what that does for
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: a young girl in her life? Do you have any
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  Speaker 1: idea what that does for a young boy that individual?
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  Speaker 1: Step right there from every single man in this country
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  Speaker 1: who is a father, and you cannot replace your old
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  Speaker 1: family with a new family and treat them right and
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: forget about the old family, because guess what, that's not
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: the trade off the God ours. So even in that way,
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  Speaker 1: we can all make a contribution on this holiday. We
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  Speaker 1: can all make contribution by mentoring, becoming a big brother
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  Speaker 1: a little sister to somebody. We can all make a
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  Speaker 1: contribution by sitting down and just and talking with the enemy.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, man, you cannot have peace without talking
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: with the enemy. So get that notion out your head.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: I don't talk with the enemy. It's the only way
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: to solve problems. So sometimes you gotta sit down with
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: the person you don't really agree with to see if
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: you can come to some form of agreement. Those are
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: my closing remarks to day. I'm just did that because
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: I finally learned what mar and Luther King really meant.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: I stopped being mad about him getting killed. I'm still mad,
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: but let it go. By my closing remarks, y'all have
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