Martin Luther King Jr: Architect of the 21st Century
With a single phrase, Martin Luther King Jr. joined Jefferson and Lincoln in the ranks of men who've shaped modern America
It was not going well, or at least not as well as Martin Luther King
Jr. had hoped. The afternoon had been long: the crowds massed before the
Lincoln Memorial were ready for some rhetorical adrenaline, some true
poetry. King's task now was to lift his speech from the ordinary to the
historic, from the mundane to the sacred. He was enjoying the greatest
audience of his life. Yet with the television networks broadcasting live
and President Kennedy watching from the White House, King was
struggling with a text that had been drafted by too many hands late the
previous night at the Willard Hotel. King was on the verge of letting
the hour pass him by.
Then, as on Easter morning at the tomb of the crucified Jesus,
there was the sound of a woman's voice. King had already begun to
extemporize when Mahalia Jackson spoke up. "Tell 'em about the dream,
Martin," said Jackson, who was standing only a few feet away. At
Jackson's remark, the preacher left his rather uninspired text — a
departure that put him on a path to speaking words of American
scripture, words as essential to the nation's destiny in their way as
those of Abraham Lincoln, before whose memorial King stood, and those of
Thomas Jefferson, whose monument lay to the preacher's right, toward
the Potomac. The moments of ensuing oratory lifted King above the tumult
of history and made him a figure of history — a "new founding father,"
in the apt phrase of the historian Taylor Branch.
2 comments:
Koh Tral Island must not be forgotten
By “any patriot Khmers”
Why do Koh Tral Island, known in Vietnam as Phu Quoc, a sea and land area covering proximately over 30,000 km2 [Note: the actual land size of Koh Tral itself is 574 square kilometres (222 sq miles)] have been lost to Vietnam by whose treaty? Why don’t Cambodia government be transparent and explain to Cambodia army at front line and the whole nation about this? Why don't they include this into education system? Why?
Cambodian armies are fighting at front line for 4.6 km2 on the Thai border and what's about over 30,000km2 of Cambodia to Vietnam. Nobody dare to talk about it! Why? Cambodian armies you are decide the fate of your nation, Cambodian army as well as Cambodian people must rethink about this again and again. Is it fair?
Koh Tral Island, the sea and land area of over 30,000 square kilometres have been lost to Vietnam by the 1979 to 1985 treaties. The Cambodian army at front line as well as all Cambodian people must rethink again about these issues. Are Cambodian army fighting to protect the Cambodia Nation or protecting a very small group that own big lands, big properties or only protecting a small group but disguising as protecting the Khmer nation?
The Cambodian army at front lines suffer under rain, wind, bullets, bombs, lack of foods, lack of nutrition and their families have no health care assistance, no securities after they died but a very small group eat well, sleep well, sleep in first class hotel with air conditioning system with message from young girls, have first class medical care from oversea medical treatments, they are billionaires, millionaires who sell out the country to be rich and make the Cambodian people suffer everyday.
Who signed the treaty 1979-1985 that resulted in the loss over 30,000 km2 of Cambodia??? Why they are not being transparent and brave enough to inform all Cambodians and Cambodian army at front line about these issues? Why don't they include Koh Tral (Koh Tral size is bigger than the whole Phom Phen and bigger than Singapore [Note: Singapore's present land size is 704 km2 (271.8 sq mi)]) with heap of great natural resources, in the Cambodian education system?
Look at Hun Sen's families, relatives and friends- they are billionaires, millionaires. Where did they get the money from when we all just got out of war with empty hands [in 1979]? Hun Sen always say in his speeches that Cambodia had just risen up from the ashes of war, just got up from Year Zero with empty hands and how come they are billionaires, millionaires but 90% of innocent Cambodian people are so poor and struggling with their livelihood every day?
2:35 PM
Dumb ass, you are elected into the annoying copy and paste hall of shame!!!
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