In one of the last speeches he gave before he was killed on April 4 1968, Dr. King addresses healthcare workers about the Vietnam War and the fight for social and economic justice. Only an audio recording was available, so we have added photos and present-day video of New England 1199ers to this excerpt. For more info: www.nehceu.org
Dr. Martin Luther King was speaking on EQUAL Justice not SOCIAL Justice. Listen to his speech. He was demanding that people were paid fairly. Note: he talked of health care workers that were working full time for part time wages. He spoke of schools that could educate the poor so that they could bring themselves out of poverty.
“Justice is is never vouluntarily given by the oppresor, it must be demanded by the oppressed”. Weather or not black people learn this, truly and genuinely learn and know this, and act upon it, will deretemine weather or not we acton it and be “free at last”.
Thank You Dr. King. Thank You for healing the pain & correcting the wrongs of our nation. Happy Birthday on what would have been your 80th Birthday today.
and dr. King believed that economic justice could only be archieved with some social reforms….
you are absolutely right. dr. king understood that racial justice could only be achieved with economic justice.
he was paraphrasing frederick douglas. “freedom in never given voluntarily by the opressor, it must be demanded by the opressed.”
Woo!
This man should have been here today to condemn what is being done to the Palestinians in their own land. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Read William Pepper’s book Act of State. It was the book that convinced the King family to change thier views and claim that the assassintation was a conspiracy with US government involvement.
Even to this day, the evidence surrounding his murder and subsequent events are protectively hidden by our national government!!
GREAT VIDEO! GREAT SOUND BYTE.
He was killed April 4, 1968
He Didn’t Die
MLK was shot and Killed
on April 5, 1968
A truly Great Man.
Exactly what I was thinking as I watched this.
“Freedom is never given voluntarly by the oppressor.” Brilliant man. In response to rowleybirkin, why do u think Martin Luther King Jr. was just limited to talking about racism? Social justice encapsulates more than just racism- he was for racial justice and social justice.
Is anbody surprised why he was killed?
He started talking about poverty, Vietnam, and norter racism. How long before he could have mobilised millions to tackle these issues? Great man, killed by the gov’t.
“Our Government is more concerned with winning an unjust war in Vietnam than winning the war against poverty right here at home.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
I think it’s sad that that statement could be made today only replacing Vietnam with Iraq.