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What Is Your Life's Blueprint?
On Oct. 26, 1967... six months before he was assassinated... Martin Luther
King Jr. visited Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dr. King spoke to the students to remind them they matter and are
important. He also encouraged them to think about the choices they make in
their lives. This is a video of the entire
What Is Your Life's Blueprint? speech.
Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for his
non-violent struggle for civil rights for the Afro-American
population. Dr. King was the youngest person at the time to receive this honor.
This is a video of his entire acceptance speech.
Don’t allow anybody to make you feel that you are nobody. Always feel
that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that
your life has ultimate significance.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Other America
On April 14, 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke to the students and
faculty at Stanford University. In his speech called
The Other America, Dr. King speaks out about racism, civil rights, segregation and
integration, poverty, and economic justice. This is a video of the
entire The Other America speech.
And I use this subject because there are literally two Americas. One
America is beautiful for situation. And, in a sense, this America is
overflowing with the milk of prosperity and the honey of
opportunity... But tragically and unfortunately, there is another America... In this
America, people are poor by the millions. They find themselves
perishing on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean
of material prosperity.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
I must ask why this prize is awarded to a movement which is
beleaguered and committed to unrelenting struggle; to a movement which
has not won the very peace and brotherhood which is the essence of the
Nobel Prize.
After contemplation, I conclude that this award which I receive on
behalf of that movement is a profound recognition that nonviolence is
the answer to the crucial political and moral question of our time –
the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting
to violence and oppression.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I’ve Been to the Mountaintop
I've Been to the Mountaintop was Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final speech. Dr. King gave this speech on April 3rd, 1968 to a church in Memphis, Tennessee. He called for unity, economic actions, boycotts, and nonviolent protests while challenging the United States to live up to its ideals. In I've Been to the Mountaintop, he talks prophetically about the possibility of an untimely death. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated the next day. This is a video of his entire speech.
We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter to
me now, because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind...I
just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go 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.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Remaining Awake
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral was held on April 9, 1968, in
Atlanta, Georgia. His wife... Coretta Scott King... requested that his
final Sunday sermon Remaining Awake be played. This is an excerpt
from his sermon.
We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but
it bends toward justice.
-Dr. Martin Luther, King. Jr.
I Have a Dream
I Have a Dream is the speech most children... and adults... are
familiar with. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave this speech on August 28,
1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Dr. King called for the end
of racism and shared his vision of a world in which all people can come
together in peace.
When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village
and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to
speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men,
Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join
hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: “Free at last!
Free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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