'I've Been to the Mountaintop'

Monday, January 16, 2023

The most often quoted words of civil rights giant Martin Luther King, Jr., are surely those of his 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech. Five years later, on the night before his murder, King delivered another memorable address in which he spoke of his mosaic journey to "the mountaintop" and what he beheld there.

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"Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.

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"You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite, favorite formula for doing it. What was that? He kept the slaves fighting among themselves. But whenever the slaves get together, something happens in Pharaoh's court, and he cannot hold the slaves in slavery. When the slaves get together, that's the beginning of getting out of slavery."

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2023-01-16 06:45 AM | Reply

But have you been to Boston?

#2 | Posted by oneironaut at 2023-01-16 10:16 AM | Reply

"He ate Jim Crow": MLK Speaks in Alabama, 03/25/65 - Jim Crow Was Created By The Wealthy to Divide Black & White People
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Somewhat buried in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech on March 25, 1965, concluding the Selma to Montgomery march, is this essential 6-minute segment where King pulls back the curtain on the origins of Jim Crow, and shows how the racial animus in the South after the Civil War was largely created by wealthy industrialists in their appetite for ever more profit. Years of conflict, hatred, pain and division that continues today -- simply for greed.

#3 | Posted by robmillernow at 2023-01-16 10:50 AM | Reply

"It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps."

Martin Luther King Jr.

#4 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2023-01-16 11:07 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Happy birthday to a great man, a father and a civil rights leader, MLK.

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice"

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2023-01-16 11:38 AM | Reply

"All Birthdays Matter."

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-01-16 11:42 AM | Reply

Happy MLK Day, everyone.

#7 | Posted by rcade at 2023-01-16 11:53 AM | Reply

Very well put, my brother (Lee the Agent)

Very well said........

#8 | Posted by saginawmi at 2023-01-16 12:01 PM | Reply

It's great to honor him. However, if we were to spend the day quoting him without attribution we'd be accused of being Uncle Toms by the left. His message is wholly incompatible with modern day "anti-racism."

#9 | Posted by BellRinger at 2023-01-16 12:11 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

" It's great to honor him. However, ... "

classic.

#10 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2023-01-16 12:14 PM | Reply

You know I'm right.

#11 | Posted by BellRinger at 2023-01-16 12:16 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Take a page of "anti racist" writing, swap out black with white and vice versa and it sounds like it was written by the klan.

#12 | Posted by BellRinger at 2023-01-16 12:18 PM | Reply

You know I'm right.

#11 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

You, sir, are an idiot.

I don't think you have ever been right. About anything.

#13 | Posted by donnerboy at 2023-01-16 12:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"He kept the slaves fighting among themselves."

Its a study in plutocratic polarization, and yes, it's as old as Pharaoh.

How the Plutocrats Win from the Populist Right

www.niskanencenter.org

A Study in Plutocracy: Rich Americans Wield Political Influence, the Rest of Us Don't

billmoyers.com

70 to 90 percent of Americans agree on what political and economic policies we should follow, according to polls.

But we are divided, keep fighting among ourselves over the few issues where we disagree... mainly because money is thrown at those issues by people and corporations who have plenty of it to stoke the divisions rather than implement the policies on which we agree.

The public being bamboozled is by plutocrats is their long held strategery for success.

#14 | Posted by Corky at 2023-01-16 12:31 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Take a page of "anti racist" writing, swap out black with white and vice versa and it sounds like it was written by the klan.
#12 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Show us.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-01-16 12:49 PM | Reply

"It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps."
Martin Luther King Jr.

I swapped black and white.
Now it looks like the KKK wrote it!

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-01-16 12:51 PM | Reply

April 4, 1968: President Johnson addresses the nation after death of Martin Luther King Jr.

abcnews.go.com

#17 | Posted by Corky at 2023-01-16 01:02 PM | Reply

Take a page of "anti racist" writing, swap out black with white and vice versa and it sounds like it was written by the klan.

#12 | POSTED BY BELLTINKLER AT 2023-01-16 12:18 PM | FLAG: PFFFFTTTT

one thing I KNOW based on your remark is that is what you hear... are you right... meh no.

But you go ahead and listen to those fairies in white hoods
let the thoughts seep right out of your empty little head onto the page here...

Must be painful for you to live in an insular little place where you are eaten alive every day by your stupid interpretations of the world around you... always afraid and trying to justify it.

#18 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2023-01-16 01:19 PM | Reply

www.youtube.com

#19 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2023-01-16 03:02 PM | Reply

#11,

You are right about as often as wheepy and wolfpuppy.

#20 | Posted by Killjoy at 2023-01-16 05:52 PM | Reply

Are the smear merchants taking a break from their usual twisting of Dr King this year?

#21 | Posted by Tor at 2023-01-16 05:58 PM | Reply

To see whites pontificate about MLK with a straight face is a testament to their treachery.

#22 | Posted by fresno500 at 2023-01-16 11:39 PM | Reply

In Mississippi and Alabama, Martin Luther King, Jr., Day observances celebrating his life and legacy are paired with another holiday celebrating the life and legacy of Robert E. Lee.

#23 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2023-01-17 04:58 PM | Reply