Washington, 1963 Subtitles / Subtítulo / Felirat: “CC”
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Browsing Posts tagged Martin
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States, and he has become a human rights icon: King is recognized as a martyr by two Christian churches.[1] A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career.[2] He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, serving as its first president. King’s efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in US history.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Related Information
Some very cool martin luther images:
Martin Luther King Jr Memorial at night
picture by Scott Ableman
Martin Luther King Jr Memorial at night
photo by Scott Ableman
Martin Luther King Jr Memorial at night
image by Scott Ableman
Related Information
From Wikipedia: “Zeitgeist is the general cultural, intellectual, ethical, spiritual, and/or political climate within a nation or even specific groups, along with the general ambiance, morals, sociocultural direction, and mood associated with an era.” “Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 — April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. King is often presented as a heroic leader in the history of modern American liberalism.” The video does not advocate that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. supported The Zeitgeist Movement as he passed long before its conception. Rather, using his own words, to simply show how Dr. King was in line with the thoughts and direction of this movement that concerns all of human kind. Also, this is my submission to the Zeitgeist Media Festival, an annual event for which I was unable to attend. Music Credits: Zeitgeist Sonata II by Jorgi D’hondt Arid Badlands, Ethereal, Horns of Hell & Stranger Than Fiction – Produced by BlandyDoes Find those tracks @ www.zeitgeistmediaproject.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Question by : How did Martin Luther change European Society in the 15th and 16th Centuries?
I’m doing a project about the changes in European Society because of Martin Luther and his works such as the 95 Theses and the Protestant Reformation that he made happen. So basically, I need to know how the society and lives of the people changed because of Martin Luther. A preferable way is if you could be able to say how society was before Martin Luther and how society was after Martin Luther and explain why the changes took place.
Thank You!
top response:
Answer by Ima Phukov
~If your task is to address Martin Luther, why focus on something as mundane as the 95 Theses? Posting them was simply the means by which, as was the custom of the day, he advertised a discussion he planned to holding, inviting those interested to attend and soliciting writing commentary from those who could not be present personally. He did not intended the to create a schism in the Church by posting them and events took on a life of their own after he did post them. He was not the first to address the issues he presented and he was certainly not an early advocate of parting company with the Catholic Church.
In 1543, on the other hand, he wrote “on the Jews and Their Lies” was a clear agenda and goal in mind. From calling Jews “a brood of vipers and children of the devil”, “miserable, blind, and senseless,” “truly stupid fools,” “thieves and robbers,” “lazy rogues,” “daily murderers,” and “vermin,” to calling for the denial of property rights, protection of law and for their expulsion from the Germanic states of the Holy Roman Empire, to recommending that their homes and schools and synagogues be burned to declaring that “we are at fault in not killing them”, he clearly wanted to rid the Germanic states of that “base, whoring people, that is, no people of God,” who were “full of the devil’s feces … which they wallow in like swine”. He urged that their (Jews) money and property be confiscated, the rabbis be forbidden to teach, their prayer books be destroyed and ” They should be shown no mercy or kindness”, “afforded no legal protection”, and the “poisonous envenomed worms” should be drafted into forced labor. He believed that Kosher food was a Jewish plot designed to poison the Gentile populations of Europe, and that they ate it to flaunt their differences, their presumed superiority and their separateness form society at large, and to mock the Christians. A true Christian and devout follower of the “Prince of Peace”, a Jew, Jesus of Nazareth, his solution was expulsion, enslavement or genocide. Sounds a bit like a neocon fundamentalist Christian bigot of the twenty-first century, doesn’t he?
Luther’s words were widely acclaimed and a significant catalyst of the anti-Semitism that followed over the course of the next several centuries, in the Germanic states particularly, but across the Western world. Ben Franklin and George Washington took his words to heart at the Philadelphia (Constitutional) Convention when they asked for constitutional provision that would deny Jews entry into the US states or, failing that, that the Jews be specifically and expressly denied citizenship, due process and equal protection of US law. Naturally, Luther was widely quoted by the National Socialists and was an icon of their movement. Luther did not start anti-Semitism by any means, but he have it a boost that would lead directly in an almost straight lie through Kristalnacht and into the slave camps and gas chambers.
If you want to write about things that happened due to things Luther wrote with the design and intent of setting things into motion, “On the Jews and Their Lies” fits much better the parameters of the theme than do the 95 Theses. It will set your paper apart from those of your classmates as well, for it will show that you actually took the time and effort to actually try to learn something about the man.
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
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
An excerpt from the last speech given by Rev. Dr. Martian Luther King Jr. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee the next day on April 4, 1968.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
It needed to be said. What we want to hear isn’t always what we need to hear. Back in the 1980′s corporations decided to send out youth scouts to get inside our heads. They saw us as a potential marketing demographic to exploit. They force fed us this culture, Record Labels, Rap, BET, MTV, Brand Names, Pop, the club scene, it’s all to serve a few greedy bastards at the top who are profiting off of our stolen identity. When we embrace this culture of ignorance we betray the dream of MLK.
Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Debate @Rfishercap23 Follow me
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Walter Cronkite had almost finished broadcasting the “CBS Evening News” when he received word of Martin Luther King’s assassination. His report detailed the shooting and the nation’s reaction to the tragedy. (CBSNews.com)
In his remarks at The National Mall President Obama said, “For this day, we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s return to the National Mall. In this place, he will stand for all time, among monuments to those who fathered this nation and those who defended it; a black preacher with no official rank or title who somehow gave voice to our deepest dreams and our most lasting ideals, a man who stirred our conscience and thereby helped make our union more perfect.” October 16, 2011.
Video with images from MLK on the music of U2 – Pride. To know my actual source of inspiration and religion, see www.rael.org
