"I'm Sorry Sir You Don't Know Me"

Quotes from this speech:
when you go to jail for a righteous cause you can accept the inconveniences of jail with a kind of inner sense of calm and inner sense of peace

I'm gonna continue with all of my might with all of my energy and actions
to oppose the abominable , evil, and unjust war in Vietnam

we must to continue to stand up and we must continue to follow the dictates of our conscience even if that means breaking unjust laws.
non cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as cooperation with good and i do not plan to cooperate with evil at any point.

somebody said to me DR King don't you think you are hurting your leadership by taking a stand against the war in Vietnam. Aren't people who once respected you will lose respect for you and aren't you hurting the budget of your organization and i had to look at that person and say I'm sorry sir but you don't know me.
leadership by looking at the southern Christan leadership budget or taking a poll of the majority opinion.
Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher of consensus but he is a molder of consensus.
and on some positions
coward asks the question is it safe
expediency asks the question is it politic
vanity asks the question is it popular
but conscience asks the question is it right
and there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.


---Martin Luther King at Santa Rita
produced by Colin Edwards.

Description: King's speech at a demonstration supporting anti-war activitists imprisoned at the Santa Rita rehabilitation center.

MARTIN LUTHER KING AT SANTA RITA produced by Colin Edwards.
RECORDED: Santa Rita, California, 14 Jan. 1968.

BROADCAST: KPFA, 15 Jan. 1968. (23 min.)BB1460 Pacifica Radio Archives.

This item is part of the collection: Pacifica Radio Archives

jm3083 Yeah & we all know how brilliant cops are.... answer this one genius:Why is the U.S. the richest nation on earth and has the most people in prison?Because we have so many single parents? No. Because we've had ever rising rates of poverty, joblessness, division, homelessness, social and economic inequality due to the abuses of the private market....just like a cop to blame the victim....
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johngeetar
2 days ago
@SneakinSal Thank you for exposing this hate. The only way to beat racism is to expose it for what it is.  We need more people like you helping people to see the hate memes they have been programmed with. These guys are "hate-bots" and a cancer to humanity.

SneakinSal
1 month ago
@thevettedude66 - funds come from the same place as war budgets and corporate welfare - public housing in New Orleans was built by WPA workers...torn down and now real estate developers are making a killing with 39 year tax abatements on market rate units - there is no more welfare and even at its height constituted less than 1% of the budget - talk me when you manage to graduate middle school...