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Martin Luther King Day - 01.15.18 · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: things at uh, I'm sure will good morning. Everybody listened
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  Speaker 1: Steve Harvey got a radio show, Yeah, man, Steve Harvey
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  Speaker 1: got a radio show. Trying to do something with it too, man.
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  Speaker 1: Uh you know, Um, I was having a conversation the
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  Speaker 1: other day h with a young person and they were
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  Speaker 1: telling me how they felt that their life was stuck,
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  Speaker 1: that their life was in a rut, that they didn't
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  Speaker 1: know what to do next. And one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that was causing them, uh, this sadness or this depression.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they really really into something right now. One
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  Speaker 1: of the things that was causing it, Um, was the
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  Speaker 1: fact that they had made a list of things they
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  Speaker 1: wanted to accomplish by a certain age, and um that
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  Speaker 1: age they just had a birthday recently, and UM they
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  Speaker 1: were looking at the list and the list hadn't been fulfilled.
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  Speaker 1: And because that list hadn't been fulfilled, UM, they were
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  Speaker 1: really really sad about it. You know. UM one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that they had on the list was marriage, kids,
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know everything else that was on the list,
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  Speaker 1: but that was one of them. And because she had
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  Speaker 1: reached a certain age and she wasn't married, and she
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  Speaker 1: didn't have the kids, and she had just celebrated her birthday,
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  Speaker 1: she's gone into this uh mode of sadness whereas really
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  Speaker 1: really taking a toll on and uh as as I
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  Speaker 1: was learning about her situation, I was thinking about it,
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  Speaker 1: and I just wanted to share this with you all
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  Speaker 1: this morning that um see, one of the things is
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  Speaker 1: about making a list about what you want, which I
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  Speaker 1: happened to be a proponent of. I do it myself.
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  Speaker 1: I have people have dream boards, I have a gold
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  Speaker 1: sheet I have I've been doing it for years. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a wonderful way, uh to set goals.
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  Speaker 1: And to keep it in front of you as a
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  Speaker 1: constant reminder. And I always go over this goal list
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  Speaker 1: every day, you know, I mean I I go over
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  Speaker 1: it all the time every day. Sometimes I miss a
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  Speaker 1: day here and there, but but mostly every day I
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  Speaker 1: pulled my gold sheet out and I look at it,
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  Speaker 1: I read it. So I was going to these rallies,
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  Speaker 1: and I was learning about, you know, people who were
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  Speaker 1: successful in how they kept their mind writing possible. And
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  Speaker 1: one of the things I learned was to make these
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  Speaker 1: dream boards, these lists, these gold sheets and um and
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  Speaker 1: making a gold sheet and you make the sheet according
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  Speaker 1: to what you want. Think about one thing when you
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  Speaker 1: made your gold sheet, about what you wanted? Does your
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  Speaker 1: goal sheet have on it? What God wants from you?
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  Speaker 1: Did you ask in any of this what was His
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  Speaker 1: will in your life? You know? Look, man, what we
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  Speaker 1: want oftentimes is not what He wants for us. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, if if you're fighting against what you were
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  Speaker 1: created for, if you're fighting against his will, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what do you want to happen? See, don't be so
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  Speaker 1: hard on yourself when you look at your goal sheet
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  Speaker 1: and you look at what you've not become what you
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  Speaker 1: thought was a great idea. Don't be so hard on
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  Speaker 1: yourself because you just made a minded mistake. As do
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  Speaker 1: most people, we oftentimes make our goals and set our
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  Speaker 1: goals up without ever considering what is it that God
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  Speaker 1: wants from us, what's in his will? What's his plan
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  Speaker 1: for us? You know, I was talking to some people
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  Speaker 1: the other day and we were laughing about I shared
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  Speaker 1: this the other day. If you want to make God laugh,
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  Speaker 1: tell him your plan? How may it really? If you
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  Speaker 1: really want to crack God up, tell him your plan. See,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what we do. We make our plans without
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  Speaker 1: including God. But listen to me. Don't be so hard
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  Speaker 1: on yourself. Don't be so down and out about it
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  Speaker 1: when you look at your gold sheet and you haven't
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  Speaker 1: accomplished the things you wanted to accomplish. You just made
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  Speaker 1: a mind a mistake, that's all, and you can correct it.
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  Speaker 1: You just made a mistake that most people make. We
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  Speaker 1: keep talking about what we want without ever finding out
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  Speaker 1: or knowing what it is God wants for us. Well,
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  Speaker 1: guess what, man, Maybe you're fighting against the grain. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: you're just a salmon heading upstream. That's a tough fight upstream.
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  Speaker 1: Not all salmons get up to the spawning grounds. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them don't make it upstream, you know, but
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  Speaker 1: all of them, nearly all of them, except the ones
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  Speaker 1: that's killed by pray. When they spawned, they go out
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  Speaker 1: to the ocean. That's cool, because you're going because you're
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  Speaker 1: going with the grain. You're going downstream, you're going with
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  Speaker 1: the flow. That's but but when it's time to go
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  Speaker 1: against the grain, it's tough. And a lot of us
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  Speaker 1: have just been going against the grain for all of
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  Speaker 1: these these years. But you know what, listen, man, I
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  Speaker 1: did it. I know a lot of people who did it.
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  Speaker 1: Very few people get it right from the very beginning. Man,
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  Speaker 1: you got to stumble through life sometimes sometimes you got
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  Speaker 1: to fall through life. You gotta make a lot of mistakes, man,
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  Speaker 1: But these mistakes are not failures. You know, when you
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  Speaker 1: fail at something, don't look at it as a failure.
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  Speaker 1: You don't look at yourself as a failure. Because you're
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  Speaker 1: thirty and and your goals ain't reach that you had
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  Speaker 1: on your list, that was your list. What about the
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  Speaker 1: things that's going right. Stop looking at what you're not,
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  Speaker 1: Take some time out and thank God for what you are.
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  Speaker 1: How about the fact that you keep waking up to
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  Speaker 1: be thirty. You know, you get depressed about these birthdays.
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  Speaker 1: You really want to throw yourself in some depression. Miss
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  Speaker 1: a birthday, You really got a problem. Now look at
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  Speaker 1: where you are. You keep reaching birthdays. That's a glorious blessing.
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  Speaker 1: You keep waking up. You got your health, You've accomplished something.
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  Speaker 1: Something on your list is done. People spend too much
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  Speaker 1: time on the negative side, and you're just throwing yourself
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  Speaker 1: into depression. So what you want to be married by
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  Speaker 1: a certain age and you wanted to have kids. Okay, cool,
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  Speaker 1: you could have done all that with the wrong person.
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  Speaker 1: There's a blessing in not being married to the wrong person.
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  Speaker 1: There's a blessing in not having kids and nobody to
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  Speaker 1: help you raise it. There's a blessing in that man.
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  Speaker 1: You're talking to somebody who can tell it to you.
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  Speaker 1: You can marry the wrong person if you want to.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you you're gonna be up in some mess
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  Speaker 1: you can't count on. So instead of being angry because
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  Speaker 1: you're not married, you don't have kids, why don't you
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  Speaker 1: thank God the man. Maybe he spared you from some
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  Speaker 1: misery here. Maybe you could have married the wrong person.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you have kids and you're not really ready to
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  Speaker 1: be a mother or a father. You gotta look at
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  Speaker 1: the upside, man, Quit looking at what you don't have.
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  Speaker 1: Take some time to thank God for what you do have.
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  Speaker 1: When you do that, you make more room for blessings
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  Speaker 1: to flow into your life. I'm not saying how God thinks,
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  Speaker 1: because I really don't know, but I'm telling you, if
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  Speaker 1: a person comes to me and always give up hurting
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  Speaker 1: something and they never appear grateful, or they never say
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  Speaker 1: thank you, please, no, you can quit coming to me now, don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that's how God works because I've gone
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  Speaker 1: back to him several times without being grateful of thanking him,
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  Speaker 1: and he's feeling my basket up again. So I really
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  Speaker 1: think he's not like that. But I can't make the
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  Speaker 1: call for sure. But I think at one point in time, me,
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  Speaker 1: just just me talking, i'd be a little ticked off
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  Speaker 1: at somebody who was always taken, taking, taking, and never
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  Speaker 1: showing any gratitude. At one point in time, I would
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  Speaker 1: just stop the flow of the take. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: just you can't take no more from me. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I would do. Now. I'm not calling it like that
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  Speaker 1: because I ain't him, but I know he's merciful, He's
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  Speaker 1: full of goodness and here and then and he'll forgive you.
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  Speaker 1: And thank God he does that because he's shown enough,
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  Speaker 1: done it for me. But wow, man, take some time
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  Speaker 1: out today and be grateful for what you have. Stop
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  Speaker 1: complaining about where you're not, and think about where you are,
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  Speaker 1: and then take it from there. And then next time
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  Speaker 1: you make a list, make sure on that list you
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  Speaker 1: have God's will? What does he want for you? God
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  Speaker 1: create gift everybody a gift and a talent. Some of
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  Speaker 1: us never apply gifts and talents. We head off in
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  Speaker 1: another direction. Then you wonder why your life ain't ware
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be. Have you ever thought about what God
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  Speaker 1: gifted you to do? Have you ever thought about doing that?
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  Speaker 1: And still skip what you want? I wanted to play
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA, But I gotta tell you something. At
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  Speaker 1: dribbling and shooting and running all at one time throwing
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  Speaker 1: me off a little bit. You know, it's so I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing what I do. It's pretty cool. You can look
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  Speaker 1: at it that way. Okay, you're listening to ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: The show that you're about to here today is different
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  Speaker 1: because Today is m l K Day, Martin Luther King
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  Speaker 1: National Holiday, in recognition one of the greatest leaders of
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  Speaker 1: our time in American history. I personally can think of
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  Speaker 1: no person, for me personally, who has had a greater
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  Speaker 1: impact on my life as a man outside of my
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  Speaker 1: father and the way he raised me than Martin Luther King.
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  Speaker 1: I think his contribution to this country is one of
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  Speaker 1: the greatest contributions, your greatest contributions made by a man
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  Speaker 1: in American fabric, the fiber of this country. I think
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  Speaker 1: Mary Luther King had more to do to shape it
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  Speaker 1: to date than anyone in my lifetime. I should say
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  Speaker 1: what I mean, really, for me, I don't know anyone
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  Speaker 1: who's made a more major contribution in the way America
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  Speaker 1: is today than Martin Luther King. That's to take nothing
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  Speaker 1: away from no one else. And it lives on. It
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  Speaker 1: lives on. Chris Steve. Yeah, great MLK Day to you guys. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: m hm yeah. Not just the day off, y'all. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do some community service today. A lot of people
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  Speaker 1: got their pitts getting hot right now. You know that
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying. But I'm just saying a lot of
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  Speaker 1: pitts is being warmed up right about the wings. That's
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  Speaker 1: the service that was some black people. I don't do it.
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  Speaker 1: What did they do with serving sausage? Yeah? Hot, because
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  Speaker 1: it is a holiday, But after you served community? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember when we were we did the show
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  Speaker 1: from l A and we used to do the MLK parade.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, used to write Steve sometimes will be the
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  Speaker 1: Grand Marshal until Julie got off the float to go
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  Speaker 1: talk to somebody. Then guess we're taking him wrong. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the dude was giving me the finger huh for about
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  Speaker 1: a half a block on the on the floor, because
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  Speaker 1: you know, the float goes by slowly so you can
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  Speaker 1: run along time. He just giving me the finger. I
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  Speaker 1: got tired of it. Oh my god, I don't stop
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  Speaker 1: my I ain't ignoring nobody. I stopped my floating, got
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  Speaker 1: down one over there, honoring a man of peace and
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  Speaker 1: non violent man. Thank you. He gets off the float, Junior,
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  Speaker 1: Oh hey, that is Martin Luther King Day, is not
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  Speaker 1: Steve Harvey. That's about three minutes later we're like, where Steve, Steve,
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  Speaker 1: But you're gonna follow me and just for me the
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  Speaker 1: whole parade. No, no, you're not dog. No, you're not. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna come down. Let's see what you won't. It
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  Speaker 1: was interesting, Carla, to say the least. It was a
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  Speaker 1: good day. It's a wonderful day. Yeah. Happy MLK Day
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  Speaker 1: to everyone. My favorite story. We're celebrating the life and
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  Speaker 1: legacy of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. All day today.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be right back. You're listening to the Steve Harvey
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  Speaker 1: Morning Show right now. Here's the drum major instin speech
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  Speaker 1: on the Steve Harvey Morning Show. An instinct. It's a
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  Speaker 1: kind of drum major instinct. A desire to be out front,
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  Speaker 1: a desire to lead the parade, a desire to be first.
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  Speaker 1: It is something that runs a whole gamut of life.
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  Speaker 1: And so before we condemned them, let us see that
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  Speaker 1: we all have of the drum major instinct. We all
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  Speaker 1: want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction,
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  Speaker 1: to lead the parade. Alfred Adler, the Great a Psychoanalysts,
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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 addlacame
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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 attention, and all through
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  Speaker 1: childhood the drum major impulse or instinct is a major obsession.
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  Speaker 1: Children ask life to grant them first place. They are
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  Speaker 1: a little bundle of ego. They have innately the drum
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  Speaker 1: major instinct. Now in adult life we still have it,
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  Speaker 1: and we really never get by it. We like to
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  Speaker 1: do something good, and you know, we like to be
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  Speaker 1: praised for it. Now, if you don't believe that, you
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  Speaker 1: just go on living life and you will discover very
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  Speaker 1: soon that you like to be prayed eased. 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 grows out of the drum major instinct.
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  Speaker 1: A need that some people have to feel superior h
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  Speaker 1: A need that some people have to feel that they
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  Speaker 1: are first, and to feel that their white skin ordained
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  Speaker 1: them to be first. They have said over and over
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  Speaker 1: the 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: Mississippi 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 a
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  Speaker 1: kind of divinity, a kind of superiority. And think of
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  Speaker 1: what has happened in historism as a result, this perverted
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  Speaker 1: use of the drum mage instinct led to the most
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  Speaker 1: tragic prejudice, the most tragic expressions of man's in humanity
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  Speaker 1: to man, I mean, not only does this thing going
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  Speaker 1: 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: afraid that we won't be here to talk about Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ and about God and about brotherhood too many more 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 gonna be
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  Speaker 1: around because somebody is gonna make the mistake through our
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  Speaker 1: senseless blunderings, of dropping a nuclear bomb somewhere, and then
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  Speaker 1: another one is gonna drop. And don't let anybody fool you.
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  Speaker 1: This can happen within a matter of seconds. They have
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  Speaker 1: twenty megaton bombs in Russia right now that can destroy
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  Speaker 1: US city as big as New York in three seconds,
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  Speaker 1: with everybody right away in every building. And we can
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  Speaker 1: do the same thing to Russian China. But this is
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  Speaker 1: why we are drifted, and we are drifting down 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
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  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 gonna continue to say it,
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  Speaker 1: and we won't stop it because of our pride and
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  Speaker 1: I arrogant sas the nation. But God has a way
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  Speaker 1: of even put nations in their place. The God that
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  Speaker 1: I worship has a way of saying, don't play with me.
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  Speaker 1: He has a way of saying. Is the God of
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament used to say the Hebrews, don't play
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  Speaker 1: with me? Is Isum, don't play with Snith Babylon. Be
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  Speaker 1: still and know that I'm God. If you don't stop
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  Speaker 1: your reckless course, I'll rise up and break the backbone
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  Speaker 1: of your power. That can happen to America. Every now
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  Speaker 1: and then I go back and read Gibbons declar and
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  Speaker 1: the Fall of the Roman Empire. When I come and
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  Speaker 1: look at America, I say to myself, the parallels are frightening.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be right back, y'all you're listening to Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to the ride. We will continue with more of Dr
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  Speaker 1: King's the drum major instinct speech. Nobody is unhappy when
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  Speaker 1: they are praised, even if they know they don't deserve it,
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  Speaker 1: and even if they don't believe it. The only unhappy
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  Speaker 1: people about praise is when that praise is going too
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  Speaker 1: much towards somebody else. But everybody likes to be praised
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  Speaker 1: because of this real drum major instinct. Do you know
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of the race problem grows out of
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  Speaker 1: the drum major instinct. I need that some people have
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  Speaker 1: to feel superior. I need that some people have to
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  Speaker 1: feel that they are first, and to feel that their
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  Speaker 1: white skin ordained them to be first. They have said
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  Speaker 1: over and over the game in ways that we see
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  Speaker 1: with our own eyes. In fact, not too long ago,
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  Speaker 1: a man down in Mississippis said that God was a
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  Speaker 1: child a member or the White Citizens Council. And so
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: God being the child a member means that everybody who's
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  Speaker 1: in that has a kind of divinity, a kind of superiority.
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  Speaker 1: And think of what has happened in historism as a
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  Speaker 1: result this perverted use of the drum mage instinct led
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  Speaker 1: to the most tragic prejudice, the most tragic expressions of
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  Speaker 1: man's inhumanity to man. I mean, not only does this
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  Speaker 1: thing go into the racial struggle, it goes into the
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  Speaker 1: struggle between nations. And I would submit to you this
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  Speaker 1: morning that what is wrong in the world today is
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  Speaker 1: that the nations of the world engaged in a bitter,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: colossal contest for supremacy. And if some doesn't having to
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: stop this trend, I'm sorely afraid that we won't be
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: here to talk about Jesus Christ and about God and
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: about brotherhood too many more years. Somebody done bringing into
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: this suicidal thrust that we see in the world today.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: None of us are gonna be around because somebody is
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: gonna make the mistake, through our senseless blunderings, of dropping
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: a nuclear bomb somewhere, and then another one is gonna drop.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: And don't at anybody fool you, this can happen within
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  Speaker 1: a matter of seconds. They have twenty megaton bombs in
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  Speaker 1: Russia right now that can destroy US city as big
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  Speaker 1: as New York in three seconds, with everybody ripe away
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: in every building. And we can do the same thing
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  Speaker 1: to Russian China. But this is why we are drifted,
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  Speaker 1: and we are drifting down because nations are caught up
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  Speaker 1: with the German major instinct. I must be first, I
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  Speaker 1: must be supreme. Our a nation must rule the world.
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  Speaker 1: And I am sad to say that the nation in
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: which we live is the supreme culprit. And I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to continue to say it to America because I love
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  Speaker 1: this country too much to see the drift that it
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  Speaker 1: has taken. God didn't call America to do what she's
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: doing in the world now. God didn't call America to
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: engage in a senseless, un just war as a war
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  Speaker 1: in Vietnam, and we are criminals in that war. We
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: have committed more war crimes almost than any nation in
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  Speaker 1: the world. And I'm gonna continue to say it, and
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  Speaker 1: we won't stop it because of our pride and I
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  Speaker 1: arrogant sasination. But God has a way of even put
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  Speaker 1: nations in that place. The God that I worship has
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: a way of saying, don't play with me. He has
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: a way of saying. Is the God of the Old
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  Speaker 1: Testament used to say the Hebrews don't play with me, Israel,
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  Speaker 1: don't play with me Babylon, be still and know that
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  Speaker 1: I'm God. If you don't stop your reckless course, I'll
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: rise up and break the backbone of your power. That
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: can happen to America. Every now and then I go
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: back and read Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: When I come and look at America, I'll say to myself,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: the parallels are frightening. We have perverted the drum mage instinct.
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  Speaker 1: Everynine and then, I guess we all think realistically about
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: that day when we will be victimized with what is
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: life's final common denominator. That's something we called death. We
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: all think about it, and never none. Then I think
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: about my own death, and I think about my own funeral,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: and I don't think of it in a morbid sense.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Every nine then I asked myself what is it that
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I would want say? And I leave the word to
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: you this morning. If any of you are wrong, when
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I have to meet my day, I don't want to
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Long funeral. And if you get somebody here to deliver
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the unit, you tell him not to talk to Long
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: every night, and I wonder what I want him to say.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Tell him not to mention that I have a Nobel
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Peace Prize. That isn't important. Tell him not to mention
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: that I have three or four hundred of awards. That's
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: not important. Tell him not to mention where I went
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: to school. I like somebody to mention that day that
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Mordein Luther King Junior tried to give his life serving
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: of us. I'd like for somebody to say that day
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: that Martin Luther King Junior tried to love somebody. I
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: want you to say that day that I tried to
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: be right on the wall question. I want you to
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: be able to say that day that I did try
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: to feed the hungry. I want you to be able
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: to say that day that I did try in my
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: to call those who were naked. I want you to
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: say on that day that I did try in my
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: life to physic those who were imprisoned. I want you
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: to say that I tried to love and serve humanity. Yes,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: if you want to say that I was a drum major,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: say that I was a drum major for justice, Say
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: that I was a drum major for peace. I was
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: shall of things will nothing matter. I won't have any
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: want to leave or committed life behind. And that's all
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: I want to say. If I can help somebody as
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I passed along, if I can cheer somebody with a
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: word of song, if I can show somebody he's traveling wrong,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: then my living will not be in vain. If I
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: can do my duty as a Christian, or if I
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: can bring salvation to a wall who wants wrote, if
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: I can spread the message as the Master talked, then
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: my living will not be in vain. Yes, Jesus, I
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: want to be on your right or your left side,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: not for a selfish reason. I want to be on
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: your right or your left side, not in times of
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: some political kingdom or ambition. And I just wanna be
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: there in love and injustice and attention to Steve Harvey Nation.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: On this King Holiday, I want to see y'all giving
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: back today. Okay, in the words of Dr King, what
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: are you doing for others? So just go to any
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: of my social media sites for Facebook, page, Instagram, or
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: tweet me pictures that you doing community service helping others.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Please don't just make this a day off make it
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: a day on. Okay, we'll be right back, y'all. You're
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. Today is King Holiday and
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: we're celebrating now. Do you guys remember last year when
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: President Obama gave his farewell speech to the nation. It
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: was an emotional, emotional speech that sought to comfort the
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: country because a lot of Americans were on edge with
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: the election of Mr. Donald Trump. And here we are
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: a year later. Take a listen. Change only happens when
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: ordinary people get involved, and they get engaged, and they
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: come together to demand it. After eight years as your president,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: I still believe that. And it's not just my belief.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: It's the beating heart of our American idea, our bold
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: experiment in self government. It's the conviction that we are
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: all created, even endowed by our creator, with certain unalienable rights,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: among them like liberty and the pursuit of happens. It's
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: the insistence that these rights, while self evident, have never
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: been self executed. That we the people, through the instrument
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: of our democracy, can form a more perfect union. What
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: a radical idea. The great gift that our founders gave
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: to us, the freedom to chase our individual dreams through
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: our sweat and toil and imagination, and the imperative to
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: strive together as well to achieve a common good, a
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: greater good. For two forty years, our nation's call to
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: citizenship has given work and purpose to each new generation.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: That's what led patriots to choose republic over tyranny, pioneers
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: to trek West, slaves to brave, that make shift ray,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: or world to freedom. It's what told immigrants and refugees
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: across oceans than the rio grand. It's what pushed women
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: to reach for the valot. It's what powered workers to organize.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: That's why g i s gave their lives that Omaha Beach,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Anywama a rock in Afghanistan, and why men and women
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: from Selma to Stonewall were prepared to give theirs as well.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: So so that's what we mean when we say America's exceptional,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: not that our nation has been flawless from the start,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: but that we have shown the capacity to change and
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: make life better for those who follow. Yes, our progress
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: has been uneven. The work of democracy has always been hard.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: It's always been tentious. Sometimes it's been bloody. For every
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: two steps forward, it often feels we take one step back.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: But the long sweep of America has been defined by
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: forward motion, a constant widening of our founding creed to
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: embrace all and not just something. We weaken those ties
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: when we define some of us as more American than others,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: when we write off the whole system as inevitably corrupt,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: and when we sit back and blame the leaders we
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: elect without examining our own role in electing them. Oh
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: my god, what a great speech we we certainly certainly
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: you President had. Honest, we've something you just ain't like. Well, anyway, Steve,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: she's here with our headlines. Please introduce me, ladies and gentlemen,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: the one and only miss saying trip, thank you very much.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: This is a trepath news everybody. President Trump continues denying
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: to using that vulgar word for excrement and referring to
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Haitio Salvador in Africa last week during talks about immigration reform. However,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: the only Democrat in the room, Illinois sender Dick Durbin,
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: says Trump did use it, and then he went on
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: and we started to describe the immigration from Africa that
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: was being protected in this bipartisan major That's when he
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: used his vile and vulgar comments, calling the nations they
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: come from sharks, the exact word used by the president,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: not more, not just once, but repeatedly. Now, some Republicans
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: who were in the room, if initially said well, we
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: didn't hear it, or we don't remember hearing it that
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: crew remark, they're saying, and now one gentleman, one Republican,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: has changed his mind and says, oh, no, he definitely
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: didn't say it. However, Entucky Republican Senator Rand Paul takes
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: the kind of a middle ground on NBC's Meet the Press.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: He said, doesn't mean Trump's are big, and it just
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: might mean it was a poor choice of work the
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: whole scenario and put different words in there. And let's
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: say we'd rather have people from economically prosperous countries than
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: economically deprived countries. Or we realize that there are more
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: problems and economically to private countries. Therefore there's a bigger
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: impetus for them to want to come. And then it
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have been so controversial. There still might have been
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: some controversy, but it wouldn't have been so much. Nevertheless,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: here we go, remembering the key architects of our republic
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: up the magnipotent word of the Constitution and the Declaration
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: of Independence. They were signing a promise or in law whatever.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: An American walked the ball out. N't know about the
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: promise at all. Men, Yeah, black men, that re quite men,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: but be guaranteed be on a uniform rights of life, liberty,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: and the procruder. We cannot use a public toilet for
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Maryland around to Texas. Dows could use the lawn of
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: state capitals and we could not. We had the money
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: but could not stop at the Howard Johnson to eat.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: It was just legal Jim Crow laws. So we are
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied on ductor
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: down like waters and right to smith Black a mighty
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: free He was killed in Memphis. He was killed fighting
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: for justice. Now is the time to make real the
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: promises of democraship. Now is the time arrives from the
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: dark and desolate vallet of segregation to the sunlit path
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: of ratios up twenty minutes after the hours, stay tuned
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: to the Steve Harley Morning Show. You're listening to Steve
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Harvey Morning Show. Welcome back to the Ride on this
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: King Holiday, Attention Steve Harvey Nation. On this King Holiday,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: I want to see y'all giving back to day. Okay,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: in the words of Dr King, what are you doing
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: for others? So just go to any of my social
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: media sites for Facebook, page, Instagram, or tweet me pictures.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Are you doing community service helping others? Please don't just
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: make this a day off, make it a day on. Okay.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Never would have made, never could have made without you.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: I have a team that one day, every valley shall
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: be every hell in my sins should be made on.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: The places would be made with man, and the freaking
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: places would be made straight and tall, a lot to
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: be revealed, a lovell see it together. Never could have
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: made without for two hundred and thirty two years, at
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, but no,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: ordinary men and women, I'm courage. Keep it a luck
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: we meet at one of those defining moments. I'm a wiser.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: I'm mad. I realized that I'm not the like list
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: candidate for the Socker. I don't fit the typical pedigree.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: But I stand before you tonight because all across America,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: something is stirred. What the naysays don't understand is that
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: this election has never been about me. And I see
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: God working in this period in a way that men,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: in some strange way are respunding. Something is happening in
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: our room. My mind. I just want to do cards
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: were and He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: I've looked over. I've seen the premise. Man, I may
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: not get there with you, We may not get there
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: in one year or even in one term. But America,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: that we will get there. But I want you to
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  Speaker 1: know the night and we as a people, we're getting
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: to the promise. Man, We as a people, we'll get there.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: I believe that, as hard as it will be, the
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: change we need as comes because I've seen it, because
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: I've lived the heartache and the hope, the struggle and
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: the progress. The times we were told that we can't.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: The people who pressed on with that American creed, Yes
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: we can. For the busses in Montgomery, the holes is
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Atlanta who told the people that we shall overcome. Yes
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: we can. When we come back from the break at
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: thirty two after we're gonna talk about the one and
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: only Oprah Winfrey. Oprah, you're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Happy King, Holiday everyone. Earlier, we played highlights from the
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: former President Obama's farewell speech, and this time last week,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: the country was going crazy about Oprah Winfrey's Golden Globe speech.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Let's play some of her speech. It was greatness. I'd
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association because we
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: all know that the press is undersiege these days, but
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: we also know that it is the insatiable dedication to
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: uncovering the absolute truth that keeps us from turning a
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: blind eye to corruption and to injustice, to to tyrants
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: and victims and secrets and lies. As the Valves told,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: we commit to a life of service because Dr King,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: one of my favorite quotes from him is not everybody
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: can be famous, but everybody can be great because greatness
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: is determined by service. Well after, wasn't that speech great? Though?
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: I mean what ans? Yes? She did, Yes she did. Yeah,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: you must have been swirling at Opraha run for president
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: now though my full weight behind it if she go,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: but I really hope she does to intrigued by the
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: idea because you know, she's worked her life and I
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: think she's gotten it to a point where she should
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: keep being relevant, keep making the major contributions she's doing.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: All they're gonna do is hate on her and stop
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: her from doing the right thing. That's all they're gonna do.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: They're gonna they're gonna hate on this woman and she'd
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: get up there and she will not be allowed to
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: be effective because she's not gonna run as a Republican,
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: and they're all gonna make sure that nothing she does works.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: And I think, man, I don't want to see them
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: try to do this to this woman. She's been she's
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: too big, too important. From where she is, she can
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: it more done. But yeah, she may think she can
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: get it done, you know, at the White House, in
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: the Oval Office. You never know, she may feel a
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: bigger calling on her life. To me, she may, like
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: I said, I'll give him a one support But I
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: really hope to God, just as a woman and a
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: sister that did really put herself in the position. I
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: wish she'd stay away from that mess, man, because it
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: ain't nothing but mess. Politics is mess. It's bipartisan. They're
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: never gonna change that system. I said it's best, and
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: they trifle it. Man, not me, see president, Yeah me,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: you go pident. I could. I could go up there
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: because you can handle it, because I don't give a
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: damn about being ineffective. See, I go up there and
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: be ineffective, but be effective in other ways. Like all
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: my news conferences, y'all need to be there. Oh well,
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: you will have news because they're gonna be interesting. And
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna open up a Twitter account and participate
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: in it. If I'm president. You have a potent's account. Oh,
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's okay to have an account, but to
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: run your your you know, your presidency as a tweeter.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: It's not okay for the president to tweet. It's not okay. No,
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: I'm saying stopping from doing it. But it's not because
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: President Obama tweeted. You can tweet as president, but don't
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: let that be your whole presidency. That's all I'm saying.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Don't run you know. Well, I don't know, but he tweeted.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying he had a he had a a
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: Twitter account. Yeah, well that was part of how he
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: got elected though. Steve the social mood media moved right,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: he but he ushered that, Oh no, people go here
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: to get your health careff. Like course not, he wasn't
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: doing that. But yeah, this president has taken it to
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: a whole new level. All right, But anyway, um Oprah
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: will make up her mind. I guess she definitely has
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: a compassion to be president now, like you say, Steve,
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: whether or not they'll let her do it, allow her
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: to be who she is is a whole different thing.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: You know, her girlfriend, her best friend, Cale says she
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: is intrigued by the idea he is. Another one of
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: my favorite quotes from Dr King. Faith is taking the
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: first step. Even if you don't see the whole staircase
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: you're listening to show coming off. At the top of
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: the hour, we're going to play excerpts from Dr King's
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  Speaker 1: I've been to the Mountaintop speech. But right now, Steve,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: on this King holiday, can you please talk to us
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: about the importance of mentoring and about your foundation. Let
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: me see this, let me, let me stay away from
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: my foundation, for me to just talked to Let me
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: just talk to me and out there for a second.
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  Speaker 1: You do not have to have a foundation to mentor
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: you do not have to have money to mentor. You
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: don't have to be famous to mentor. All you have
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  Speaker 1: to do is be a man. I meet so many
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  Speaker 1: great brothers out there man in my lifetime who are
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: great brothers man, who are incredible men, who are can
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  Speaker 1: be and are for the most part in every way
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  Speaker 1: just as good as mentor as me. Because mentoring only
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: requires one thing, now, well one major thing. It just
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: requires just a little bit of time. And in that time,
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  Speaker 1: if you can offer a young man some guidance and
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  Speaker 1: some love, you are a mentor and you can change
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  Speaker 1: a person's life with that. You can change a person's
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  Speaker 1: life with that. All you got to do is take
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  Speaker 1: one young guy that you see. He could be going
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  Speaker 1: in the wrong direction, he could be headed in the
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  Speaker 1: right direction. Give him some encouragement, tell him what you know.
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  Speaker 1: Because let me tell you something, when you're talking to
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  Speaker 1: a boy or a young man and you're a full
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  Speaker 1: grown man, your best to believe he can learn something
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  Speaker 1: from you, because you can tell him how to be
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  Speaker 1: a man. Tell him that real men go to work,
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: Tell him that real men obeyed the law. Tell him
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  Speaker 1: that real men take care of their children. Tell him
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  Speaker 1: that real men are respectful of women. Tell him that
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  Speaker 1: real men honor God. Tell him that, tell him that
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  Speaker 1: you love him, that he can do better, tell him
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  Speaker 1: that you expect him to do better. Give him somebody
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  Speaker 1: to be accountable for, and then give him your number.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: And if he got any questions about girls, about other dudes,
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  Speaker 1: about making it, about trying when he could, if he
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  Speaker 1: could just run it by another man, it could change
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: his life. Everybody can be a mentor mentor just one person. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you got time for a group of boys to
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  Speaker 1: come by your house and you talk with him, wants
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  Speaker 1: a week, that's cool. But if you just grab one man,
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  Speaker 1: every man can grab one boy and change his life.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: Because all of us know a little cat that looked
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: like he going the wrong way? Are all of us
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  Speaker 1: know you snatch him up and saying, man, let me
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: talk to you. Man, look like you've got a little potential. Man,
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: what you've got going on in your life? Man, what
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: you're trying to do? Okay, Well you need to stay
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: waiting that little crew over that man, because they're gonna
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: get you in trouble. Let me tell you something. Come
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: over here when you need a little bit. And he
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: filed all us come over here, man, talk with me.
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  Speaker 1: Let me show you how we might be put put
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  Speaker 1: put put a little plan together. That's mentoring is important critically,
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  Speaker 1: That's all I was. We'll say all right, yeah, and
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: then you're not gonna ment Tommy. We started new and
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: he stopped that. Now this is a new year, the
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  Speaker 1: new year everything. Tommy has not asked me to mentor him.
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  Speaker 1: He has not. Tommy, I asked you to mention me
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  Speaker 1: to some people that can see mentor, and MSN asked
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  Speaker 1: me to mention him to some people I know, mention him.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Junior told you, I know, I know, stop, I know
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  Speaker 1: what time my mentoral. I know you've been my all
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  Speaker 1: my life. You ain't been beat up back, you ain't
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  Speaker 1: been hit punched in the head and in the chissing
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  Speaker 1: and left and then taken down the street to get
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  Speaker 1: your ways. Well, it's a lot of stuff you ain't had.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't got a lot of that. You don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: I was mentor to make a change once in mine.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna feel real good, gonna make a difference, gonna
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  Speaker 1: make it run. As I turned up a favorite opened
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  Speaker 1: the wing is the blue in my mind. I see
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  Speaker 1: your kids in the street without enough to eat? Who
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  Speaker 1: am I to be blind buttending not to see them be?
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: I starve us to streak on. I'm broken by the
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  Speaker 1: time and one then so they follow each other or
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  Speaker 1: moving them No, because they got no where to go
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  Speaker 1: and the win no one can do. No. I starting
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  Speaker 1: with the man the im skin you to change his way,
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  Speaker 1: and no, the says, come then and cover. If you
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  Speaker 1: want to make a brother, I bet the place. Take
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  Speaker 1: a look at yourself and make a change, not to
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  Speaker 1: die and die. And I'm making them mother help, it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of love. It's time that I read and go
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  Speaker 1: long and look at who do deed do? Oh well, deepness, God,
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  Speaker 1: somebody's broken hot and watcht they found in the sheet?
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  Speaker 1: See God, page to me. That's why I'm starting. Get
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: me something with the man the liver as think you'll
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  Speaker 1: you'll change his way, and says to the man, any clever,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to make a brother about the basic
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: take a look at yourself and make change something without
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  Speaker 1: the man and the bever as your change. If you
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  Speaker 1: want to make the broth, I bet up a base
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  Speaker 1: and take a look at yourself and make up change
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  Speaker 1: something with the man, and ye change a way change myself.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to take a bround to come back
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  Speaker 1: to base and take a look at your sound, and
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: then you little change. You got a game right while
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: you got the time, and you go your hand, then
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: you close y'all your mind that made that man, Yeah
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: la chaine chandese anger the man to look if they
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  Speaker 1: want to make the broth back at the base, take
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  Speaker 1: a look at yourself and make up change. No the
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: night yet and die and don't know, go to be
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  Speaker 1: con us that it's don't about real good shell for shame.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: Don't leave your sad, don't know, don't got to stop
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  Speaker 1: it stop yah and dan and don't go, don't die
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: and sad and make don't got come boy she more
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: she more, don't stand stead for inspirational music. Here is
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: another one of my favorite quotes from Dr. King. Faith
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  Speaker 1: is taking the first step. Even if you don't see
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: the whole stadcase. Please don't just make this a day off,
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: make it a day on. Okay, you're listening to show.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Once Said that life's most
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: persistent and urgent question is what are you doing for others?
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: Come together, everybody and serve your communities coming up. We
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: got some excerpts from Dr King's I've Been to the
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: Mountaintop speech. Let us rise up tonight with a greater
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  Speaker 1: readiness in these powerful day, these days of challenge to
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: make America what it ought to be. We have an
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: opportunity to make America a better nation. And I want
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: to thank God once more for allowing me to be
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: here with you. You know, several years ago I was
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: in New York City autographing the first book that I
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: had written. And while sitting the autographing books, the minute
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: black woman came up. The only question I heard from
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: all was you Mardin Luther King? And I was looking
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: down writing and I said yes. The next minute I
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: felt something beating on my chest. Before I knew it,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: I had been stabbed by this deminuted woman. I was
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: rushed to hull Um Hospital. It was a dog Saturday afternoon.
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: That bladed have gone through, and the X rays revealed
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: that the tip of the blade was on the edge
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  Speaker 1: of my air order. The main ottering and once such punction,
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: you drowned in your own blood. That's the end of you. Yes,
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: It came out in the New York Times the next morning,
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: that if I had merely sneezed, I would have died. Well.
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: About four days later, they allowed me after the operation,
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: after my chest had been opening the blade had been
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: taken out, to move around in the wheelchair in the hospital,
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: they allowed me to read some of the mail that
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: came in, and from all over the States and the world.
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: Kind letters came in. I read a few, but one
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  Speaker 1: of them I will never forget. I had received one
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: from the President and the Vice President. I've forgotten what
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: those telegrams said. I'd received the visit and a letter
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: from the Governor of New York, but I've forgotten what that.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: Let us say it. But that was another letter. It
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: came from a little girl, a young girl who was
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: a student at the White Plains High School. And I
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: looked at that, letting I'll never forget it, said simply,
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  Speaker 1: dear Dr King, I am a ninth grade student at
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  Speaker 1: the White Plains High School. She said, While it should
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  Speaker 1: not matter, I would like to mention that I'm a
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  Speaker 1: white girl. I read in the paper of your misfortune
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: and of your suffering, and I read that if you
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: had sneezed, you would have died. I'm simply writing you
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: to say that I'm so happy that you didn't sneeze,
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: and I want to say to night. I want to
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: say tonight that I too, am happy that I didn't sneeze,
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  Speaker 1: because if I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around
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  Speaker 1: here in nineteen sixty when students all over the South
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  Speaker 1: started sitting in a lunchtowners, and I knew that as
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: they were sitting in they were really standing up for
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  Speaker 1: the best in the American dream and taken the whole
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  Speaker 1: nation back to those great weals of democracy which were
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  Speaker 1: dug deep by the founding fathers in the Declaration of
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  Speaker 1: Independence and the Constitution. If I had sneezed, I wouldn't
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: have been around here in nineteen six to one when
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: we decided to take a rod for freedom and in
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: its segregation in it to state travel. If I had sneezed,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been around here in nineteen sixty two
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  Speaker 1: when Negroes and all been at Georgia decided to straighten
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  Speaker 1: that box up. And when all the men and women
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  Speaker 1: straightened the box up, they're going somewhere because a man
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: had roger back unless it is bent. If I had sneeze,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: if I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been here. In
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: nineteen six to three, the black people of Birmingham, Alabama
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  Speaker 1: aroused the conscience of this nation and brought into being
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  Speaker 1: the Civil Rights Bill. If I had sneeze, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have had a chance later that year in August to
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  Speaker 1: try to tell America about a dream that I had had.
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  Speaker 1: If I had sneeze, I wouldn't have been down in Selma,
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  Speaker 1: Alabama to see the Gretain movement there. If I had sneezed,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been in Memphis to see a community
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  Speaker 1: rally around those brothers and sisters who are suffering. I'm
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: so happy that I didn't sneeze. And they were telling now,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter now, it really doesn't matter what happens now.
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  Speaker 1: I left Atlanta this morning, and as we got started
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  Speaker 1: on the plane that was six of us, the pilot
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: said over the public address system, We're sorry for the
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: delaye but we have Dr Martin Luther King on the plane,
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  Speaker 1: and to be sure that all of the bags were
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: checked and to be sure that nothing would be wrong
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: on the plane, we had to check out everything carefully,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: and we've had the plane protected and guard it all night.
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  Speaker 1: And then I got into Memphis and some began to
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: say the threats, talk about the threats that were out.
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  Speaker 1: What would happen to me from some of a sick
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: white brothers. Well, I don't know what will happen now.
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  Speaker 1: We've got some difficult days ahead, but it really doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter with me now because I've been to the mountaintop.
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  Speaker 1: I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live
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  Speaker 1: a long life. Longevity has its place, but I'm not
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  Speaker 1: concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.
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  Speaker 1: And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain
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  Speaker 1: and I've looked over and I've seen the promised Land.
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  Speaker 1: I may not get there with you, but I want
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  Speaker 1: you to know the night that we as a people
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  Speaker 1: will get to the Promised Land. So I'm happy tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.
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  Speaker 1: Mine eyes have seen the glory all the coming of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. You're listening to the string show till this
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: King Holiday, don't forget. Maybe take your kids to your
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: city's King's Holiday celebration, taking a parade to Youth Day activities. Also,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: you know you can visit the King's Center. You can
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: go to the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, the Rosa
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: Parks Museum in Montgomery, International Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro.
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  Speaker 1: You can teach your children about the civil rights movement.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: Tell your children about the legacy of the civil rights movement. Correcta.
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  Speaker 1: Scott King wrote that this holiday honors the curR age
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  Speaker 1: of a man who endued harassment, threats, and beatings and
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: even bombings. And we commemorate the man who went to
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  Speaker 1: jail twenty nine times to freedom fathers. After the third one,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: I'm going through something else, but that's three times. That's it.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: Find me something else to do it. But all the
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: protesting finish, stop dogs and bottom holes him manners. He
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: didn't shot of water hole, told my shirt off in
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: him man, but not all in my mouth and stuff.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: I ain't got nothing but crazy. All I got is
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: a hat band in my drawls. He was definitely the
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  Speaker 1: man for the time. Because I'm just around. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how he did it with non violence. And that's
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  Speaker 1: the real apot right there. You could not have done that.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: Once you turn that water holes on me, once you
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  Speaker 1: aiming at somebody else. I'm coming through a lot of
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: five and would have got jumped on. Okay, but twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine times. Wow, yeah, that's pretty I would have been
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: at all the protests with one of them wrenches. But
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: he did it for us, he did, you know he did.
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing, the Rinch with the five hund pipe,
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: rinche you ain't gonna cut his hydrant off. We need
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  Speaker 1: to stop this water. I mean, this man was non violent.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: We're talking and what are you talking? But you know
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  Speaker 1: that pipe, Mamas slang his pipe. Can't where he's going
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: to pipe? That crime and put up nats on some
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: people's heads. Harvey, maybe just sticking dogs over finished. You
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: were saying he went to jail ty nine times to
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: achieve freedom for others, others, others who knew that he
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: would pay the ultimate price for his leadership. But he
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: kept on marching, He kept on protesting, he kept on organizing. Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday is not only for
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: celebration and remembrance and education and tribute, but above all,
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: it's a day of service. It is a day of
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  Speaker 1: service all across America. On this holiday, his followers performed
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: service in hospitals and shelters and prisons, and wherever people
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  Speaker 1: need some help, and that's everywhere these days. It is
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: a day of volunteering, mentoring at risk youngsters, which you
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: do stay and more more inspirational. He is another one
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: of my favorite quotes from Faith. He's taking the first steal.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't see the whole staircase. M B B
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  Speaker 1: B B B B B B B b b B
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  Speaker 1: M S and b and b and mmmmmmmm. Luther King
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  Speaker 1: National holiday in recognition one of the greatest leaders of
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  Speaker 1: our time in American history. I personally can think of
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  Speaker 1: no person, for me personally who has had a greater
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: impact on my life as a man outside of my
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: father and the way he raised me than Martin Luther King.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: I think his contribution to this country is one of
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: the greatest contributions made by a man in American fabric,
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: the fiber of this country. I think Mary Luther King
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: had more to do to shape it to date than
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: anyone in my lifetime. I should say, what a man
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: I mean really for me, I don't know anyone who's
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: made a more major contribution in the way America is
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: today than Martin Luther King. That's to take nothing away
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: from no one else you're listening to Steve. All right, Steve,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: you know we have to talk openly with our children
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: about race, about ethnicity, about religion and bigotry. Uh have
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: you dealt with that? I mean, I'm sure you have.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: But I dealt with with your children. I mean, you know,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: talking to them about it at a young age. I mean,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: you know, I had a couple of incidents. Has happened,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: you know about race? I try to My kids grew
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: up very, very different from me, so they've afforded or
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: were afforded a different lifestyle than I had. So my
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: none of my kids grew up in the hood. My
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: kids have been fortunate enough to live in totally different
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: environments and I grew up in so they've I've always
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  Speaker 1: encouraged my kids to accept people for who they were,
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: as long as they accept you for who you are.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: I'm a realist when I talk to my kids about racism.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: If somebody got a problem with you because of the
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: color of your skin, I said, you're gonna know it,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: and then you have to deal with it accordingly. You know,
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: everybody not going All people are not good people. It's
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: just some bad people out there. But when you run
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: into them, you have to have an assurance, you have
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: to have a confidence level, a certain amount of self
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: esteem about yourself. Don't let nobody make you try to
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: feel less there simply because of the color of your skin.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: That's not gonna happen. And I've given them my full
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: permission to address it. I'm probably not the best parent
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: to talk about racism with your kids because I've had
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: to deal with it on some very blatant levels, being
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: sixty years old, you know, and in two days be
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: sixty one. You know, I've seen it from some really
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: dark angles. Man. And so I've just always had my
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: kids in a position where they they deal with it
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  Speaker 1: if they if they see it, you know, if they're
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  Speaker 1: confronted with it, deal with it. Be courageous about it.
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  Speaker 1: Don't put yourself in a life threatening situation about it,
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: but be courageous about it. But my kids are open
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  Speaker 1: to people, you know, they accept people for who they are.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: They don't have uh hang ups when it comes to race.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Uh, my son's wife is from it has
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: biracial parents. My son's wife has biracial parents. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: we all eat, we all celebrate holidays. Ago when we
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  Speaker 1: have a problem with that. I'm it's very simple to me.
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  Speaker 1: If you cool to me, I'm cool with you. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't I don't do good with people who who
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  Speaker 1: don't all. I don't do good with racism. I just don't.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not the best person to talk about it because
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  Speaker 1: if you extend it to me. I hate to say this,
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: but I give it back to you. Yeah. Well, okay,
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: this is King Jay. Guys. All right, well let's let's
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  Speaker 1: let's here so we could ask him about the shifted
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. Carlo, you and your daughter Tasha. We
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: gotta say happy birthday to Tasha too. By the way,
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: she's born on the same day as Steve god daughter Steve. Anyway,
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: she's going to be ten years old this Wednesday. Now,
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: you guys did a community project together. You ask kids
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: what Dr King means to them and what can we
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: do to help help keep Dr King's dream alive. Take
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  Speaker 1: a listen. This is your girl, Carla Ferrell and I
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  Speaker 1: am here with my daughter Tasha Ferrell, and on this
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: King Holiday, we're doing a community service project and I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to talk to Tasha about King Holiday, the importance
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  Speaker 1: of Dr King's legacy and why is this day so important.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: So Tasha, tell me why is King Holiday? Marluth King
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  Speaker 1: Day is so important? And tell me what you've learned
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  Speaker 1: about Dr King's legacy. Dr King wasn't important because of
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: the speeches. He was trying to send a message that
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  Speaker 1: don't judge some of their religion or how they look
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  Speaker 1: or their skin color, and judge them and how they
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: behave to anyone or you like in behavior, I mean
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: meano nice and so. And when he sentenced that message,
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  Speaker 1: you should think, oh, let's be nice to one another
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  Speaker 1: and let's not think about how we look. Hi. My
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  Speaker 1: name is Selmy and I'm in fifth grade. I think
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  Speaker 1: Dr King wanted wanted equality for all all race is Hello.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: My name is Carly, and Martin Luther King is important
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  Speaker 1: to me because I wouldn't be able to go to
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  Speaker 1: my school or being student counsel at my school if
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: it wasn't for him, and I wouldn't be able to
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: have such a large option of friends to have. So
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: I just thank Martin Luther King for for having that
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  Speaker 1: dream and making all of those speeches and leading all
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: of those walks. Hi, my name is Sasha and I'm
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  Speaker 1: in high school. But I think Dr King's dream meant
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  Speaker 1: to me. It means that he wanted to be respected,
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  Speaker 1: even though people didn't like him or like his color,
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: he just wanted to be respected and he wanted all
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: the colors to unite. So that was really good. You know,
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: the kids, some Atasha's friends, they were from all races,
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: all background. These kids at this age, you know, she'll
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: be ten, like you said on Wednesday, they don't see
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  Speaker 1: color like that. You know, racism is taught. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: didn't either, right, And they all play together, they all
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: want to be together, they're all friends, and they don't
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  Speaker 1: they don't care. They don't care what color you are.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: They don't even say black, they say brown. Tasha went
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: through that phase too, and she said brown. She understands
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: now because she's older, that her race is black. Are
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: African American. And we have a little cute dog. And
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: our dog was given to us by one of her
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: friends and who happens to be white. The grandmother gave
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: us a dog. We just I just love how these
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: children are at at this age where they teach me things,
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: you know, listening to them talk. So you you guys
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: heard some of it. So it's a good thing. I
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: still know. I know people have a tendency to say
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: it has a long way to go, and it does,
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: but you best to believe it's gotten better. Yes, absolutely,
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: still a huge amount of remnants. Of course, nobody's blind
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: to that, but oh my goodness, it's better than it
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  Speaker 1: used to be. And I could see improvement even amongst
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: my kids, you know, where it is not allowed to
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  Speaker 1: be so pervasive. I think racism will be with us
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: until the end of time. But I hate to hear that,
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: but I do. Now. The sad thing about it is
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: is because of this presidency it has racism is really
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: his ugly head and kind of felt like a little
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: bit better about doing it, seems like. And that's a
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: scary place to be. Yes, and we'll be back right
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  Speaker 1: after this. Attention to Steve Harvy Nation on this King Holiday,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: I want to see y'all giving back today. Okay, in
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: the words of Dr King, what are you doing for others?
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: So just go to any of my social media sites,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: my Facebook page, Instagram or tweet me pictures. Are you
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: doing community service helping others? Please don't just make this
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: a day off, make it a day on. Okay, you're
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: listening morning show coming up, We're gonna play some excerpts
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: from Dr King's I Have a Dream Speech. I'm happy
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  Speaker 1: to john with you today in what will go down
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  Speaker 1: in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: light of Pope to millions of Negro slaves who had
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: as a joyous day break to end the long night
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  Speaker 1: of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: steal is not free. One hundred years later, the life
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: of the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later,
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: the negro lives on a lonely island of property in
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: hundred years later, the negro is still languished in the
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  Speaker 1: corners of American society and finds himself in exile in
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: his own land. So we've come here today to ramatize
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: a shameful condition. In a sense, we've come to our
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  Speaker 1: nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of
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  Speaker 1: our Republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promise or
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  Speaker 1: rene to whichever the American was to fall air. This
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: note was a promise at all men, yes, black men
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  Speaker 1: as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promise
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: or note in so far as her citizens of color
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: are concerned. Instead of honoring the sacred obligation, America has
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: given the Negro people a bad check, a check which
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: has come back mark insufficient funds. But we refuse to
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. He refused
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: to believe that that are insufficient funds in the great
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: bulks of opportunity of this nation. So we've come to
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  Speaker 1: cash this check, a check that will give us a
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: pun demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: We have also come to this hell of spot to
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  Speaker 1: remind a miracle of the fierce urgency of now. This
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling,
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: offer to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: is the time arise from the dark and desolate valley
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: is the time from the Greek ends of racial injustice
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  Speaker 1: to the solid rock or brotherhood. Now is the time
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  Speaker 1: think the reality. For all of god Stone, it would
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  Speaker 1: be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of
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  Speaker 1: the moment. This sweltering summ of the Negros. Legitimate discontent
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: will not pass until that is an invigorating autumn of
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty three is not an end,
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: to blow off steam and will now be content, we'll
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: have a rude awakening. If the nation returns to business
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: America until the Negro has granted his citizenship rights. The
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: whirlwinds a revolt will continue to shake the foundations of
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: that is something that I must say to my people
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place,
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: we must not be guilty of wrong for deeds. Let
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: us not seek to satisfy first for freedom by drinking
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: We must not allow our creative protests to degenerate into
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: marvelous Knew militant said Bridge hasn't got the Negro community
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: must not lead us to a distrust of all right people.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: For many of our white brothers, as evidenced by the
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: presence here today, have come to realize that that defines
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: part I tend to Steve Harvey Nation on this King Holiday,
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: I want to see y'all giving back today. Okay, in
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: the words of Dr King, what are you doing for others?
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: So just go to any of my social media sites
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: for Facebook, page, Instagram or tweet me pictures. Are you
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: doing community service helping others? Please don't just make this
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: a day off, make it a day on Okay, when
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: we come back, we got more. Dr King's I have
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: a Dream speech. You're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: right now. As promise, we're gonna play some of Dr
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: King's I Have a Dreams speech, which you delivered on
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: the steps of the Lincoln Memorial back in nineteen sixty three,
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: calling for an end to racism in the United States.
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: They will come to realize that our freedom is inextricably
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone, and as
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: we walk, we must make the plaids that we shall
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: always march ahead. We cannot turn back. They are those
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: who are asking the depties of civil rights. When will
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: you be satisfied? We can never be satisfied. As long
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: as the negro as the victim of the unspeakable horrors
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: of police brutality, We can never be satisfied. As long
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: as our body is heavy with the fatigue of travel,
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: the hotels of the cities. We can be satisfied as
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: and robbed of that dignating for rights on there he
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: cannot be satisfied as long as a negro in Mississippi
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: cannot vote, and the negro in New York police he
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: has nothing for which to vote. No, No, we are
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until just
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: as rolled down like waters and righteousness like a mighty screen.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: I not my unmindful that some of you have come
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: here out of great trials and tribulation. Some of you
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: have come fresh from narrat jail sales. Some of you
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: have come from areas where you're pressed for freedom, left
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: of creative suffering. Continue to work with the paint that
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: on earned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums,
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: and get tolls of our northern cities. Knowing that somehow
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: this situation can and will be changed. Let us not
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: while in the valley of despair. I say to you today,
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: my friend, h So even though we face the difficulties
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: up to day and tomorrow, I still have a dream.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dreams.
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: I have a dream, but one day this nation will
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: rise up, live up the true meaning of its creed.
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: We hold these truths to be self evident, that all
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: men are created. A dream that one day, on the
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: red hills of Georgia, the sons of farmer slaves and
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: the sons of farmer slave owner, will they be able
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: have a dream the one day even the state of Mississippi,
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: of state sweltering with the heat injustice, sweltering with the
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: heat of oppression, will be transformed into any oasis of
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: freedom and justice. I have a dream a little children
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: well one day live in a nation where they will
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: not be judged by the color of their skin, but
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: by the content of that character. I have a dream
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: to be will be that you're listening Steve Harvey Morning
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: Show right now. As promises, we're gonna play some of
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: Dr King's I have a Dream speech, which he delivered
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial back in nineteen
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: sie calling for any into races in the United States.
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: Down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: having his lips tripping with the words of interposition and nullifications.
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: One day, right now in Alabama, little black bars and
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: black girls will be able to join hands with little
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: white bars and white girls as sisters and brothers. I
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: have a dream today. I have a dream that one
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  Speaker 1: day every valet shall be exalted, every hill and mountains
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: shall be made low, The rough places will be made plain,
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: and the crooked places will be made straight, And the
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: gore of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flush
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: shall see it together. This is our hope. This is
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: a piece that I go back to the Southwes. With
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: this fail we will be able to he out of
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith,
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: we will be able to transform the jangling discards of
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith,
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: we will be able to work together, to pray together,
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free.
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: One day. This movie ding, this will be the day
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: with all of God's children be able to sing with
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: new meaning. My country tears at the sweet land of liberty,
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: and be our sings, land where my father's died, land
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: of the pilgrim's pride. From every mountain side, Let freedom
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: ring in Americus. To be a great nation, this must
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: of New Hampsa. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening alligators
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow cap arcis
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the crevacious slopes of California.
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: But not only that. Let freedom ring from stone mountain
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: Let freedom ring from every hill and mole hill of Mississippi,
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: from every mountainside the freedom ring. And when that happens,
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: when we allow freedom ring, when we letted ring from
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: every village and ever hamlet from every state and every city,
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: we will be able to speed up that day when
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: all about children back in and pipe men, twoes and
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: ten clouds, protostans and catholic we'll be able to drawn
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: the hands and singing the words of the old Nick
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: Ro spiritual pree at last, Free, at Last. Thank attention
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: to Steve Harvey Nation on this King Holiday, I want
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: to see y'all giving back today. Okay, in the words
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: of Dr King. What are you doing for others? So
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: just go to any of my social media sites for Facebook, page,
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: Instagram or tweet me pictures. Are you doing community service
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: helping others? Please don't just make this a day off,
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: make it a day on. Okay, you're listening to Steve
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: Harvey Morning Show. All right, here we are with the
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: last break of the day. Just one more thing, Steve.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: So happy that you've brought back the closing remarks. I
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: mean they were always powerful, but we just need them
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: so much in this time right now, So thank you
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: for that. You know. The other day on the show,
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: I was asking Ernie Hudson. I have this thing on
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: the show called uncensored rapid fire Questions MHM, and I
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: asked Ernie Hudson, if you could have dinner with any
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: celebrity living or decease, who would it be. And Ernie
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: Hudson said Sydney Portier because he's an actor. And Ernie
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: Hudson's an actor. It's sort of funny. So we were
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: talking off the air and he asked me who would
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: I want to have dinner with? And it's two people
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: man that I said I wish I could sit and
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: have dinner with, and it was Richard Pryor and Martin
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: Luther King. But I was kind of tossed up because
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: I really want to sit down and have dinner with
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: Mohammed Ali. So it's it's almost a three freeway affair
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  Speaker 1: for me. It's almost even. These were three people who
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  Speaker 1: had a major impact on my life as a black
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  Speaker 1: man and as a career. I mean Richard Pryor, man,
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  Speaker 1: when I saw him, the first time I saw him,
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  Speaker 1: I said, that's that's what I'm gonna be now. Mohammed Ali.
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  Speaker 1: I knew him before I knew anything of Richard Pryor.
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  Speaker 1: Mohammed Ali was the first person that ever ever made
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  Speaker 1: me think I could be great, And even though I
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  Speaker 1: don't consider myself great, at least he put it inside
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  Speaker 1: of me and made me think I could be great
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  Speaker 1: and made me want to start working my tail off
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  Speaker 1: to achieve some form of greatness. But even before those two,
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  Speaker 1: Martin Luther King had put an impression on me as
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  Speaker 1: a boy that has shaped and molded me even to
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  Speaker 1: this day. I remember in school, in elementary school when
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  Speaker 1: he was killed and the teacher made us watch his
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  Speaker 1: funeral on TV, and that casket, that mule drawn casket
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  Speaker 1: was being pulled up the street, and I was looking
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  Speaker 1: at my teacher. She was just crying, man, And I
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  Speaker 1: was so not understanding why this happened, because she used
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  Speaker 1: to play the speeches for us that I have a
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  Speaker 1: dream and all of that, and I could not understand
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  Speaker 1: for the life of me, as a boy, why they
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  Speaker 1: would kill Martin Luther King. I heard my all to
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  Speaker 1: say in angle one time after Mark Luther King got killed.
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  Speaker 1: He said, boy, we're in a world of trouble and
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  Speaker 1: white folks just don't want to have nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with us. That impacted me, man, It impacted me because
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  Speaker 1: I really really thought for so many years that white
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  Speaker 1: people really didn't want to have nothing to do with
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  Speaker 1: Black people. And as I got a little bit older
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  Speaker 1: and I was listening back to his speeches because I
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  Speaker 1: used to play him in my car when I was homeless,
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  Speaker 1: and I used to play a lot of Maran Luther
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  Speaker 1: King tapes you could buy him at truck stops and stuff,
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  Speaker 1: just cassette tapes. I was listening to him and his
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  Speaker 1: message of peace and love and struggle and what was
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  Speaker 1: right and human dignity. It started reshaping me, and I
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  Speaker 1: began to think. I said, Okay, this can't be. He
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  Speaker 1: can't be talking about all of us and all it's
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  Speaker 1: just a few people that don't want this to work.
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  Speaker 1: And so that started reshaping me. Also, he was so
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  Speaker 1: impactful with what he said to us as a people
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  Speaker 1: that how in the world has this black man, with
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  Speaker 1: his message of love and submission and strength, caused so
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  Speaker 1: many changes in laws, affirmative action, so many things of
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  Speaker 1: that nature. It caused a lot of people to view
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  Speaker 1: us differently. When Bull Connors turned those fire hoses on
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  Speaker 1: us in Birmingham, Alabama, it it made America see what
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  Speaker 1: America really was. And America had to change a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And we still got a
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  Speaker 1: long way to go. But I looked back at marm
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  Speaker 1: Luther King and all he stood for and what he did.
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  Speaker 1: It's just one of the greatest people of my time.
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  Speaker 1: Now you may have a different opinion, but this is
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  Speaker 1: just mine. He was one of the greatest human beings
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  Speaker 1: of my time, I don't. I don't know anybody has
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  Speaker 1: made a bigger contribution to this world than him, the
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  Speaker 1: world that I live in, that I see. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know a black person that made a larger contribution. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know a white person. I don't know a person
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  Speaker 1: that's made a larger contribution that was human. I just don't.
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  Speaker 1: That's just my opinion. It's a powerful So when they
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  Speaker 1: asked me who I wanted to have dinner with, if
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  Speaker 1: I could sit down with them, three people right there,
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  Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali, Richard Prye, and mar Luther King, that's pretty
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  Speaker 1: much me. I would like to think of myself as
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  Speaker 1: a combination of those three people. My career was patterned
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  Speaker 1: after Richard Pride just wanted to be funny. Nobody will
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  Speaker 1: ever be Richard Pryde funny, but you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I wanted to be. I try to be
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  Speaker 1: a decent person, as was Martin Luther King. I try
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  Speaker 1: to help and inspire people. But I got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of dog in me too, a lot of fight, got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of defiance in me. I got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of strength and a lot of courage to stand up
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  Speaker 1: and say what I Sometimes I do stuff that ain't
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  Speaker 1: so popular. I say stuff that ain't so popular, and
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  Speaker 1: that's a little bit of our leaves. So those three
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  Speaker 1: people right there, they shaped me, along with the greatest
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  Speaker 1: man I've ever known, the incredible Jesse Slick Harvey Man.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Daddy for being a piece of all of
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  Speaker 1: them too, with your bad black self. So mar Luther
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  Speaker 1: king Day, I'm just proud to be a black man
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  Speaker 1: I am. And that's pretty good too. I just hope
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  Speaker 1: you can understand that's just a personal feelings of mine.
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