[Romantic Old Bird]

The amazing speech Martin Luther King Jnr made the night before he was assassinated on April 3rd 1968, and I was just thinking that if there is anyone on here who hasn't heard it, they might like to.

I remember the day well. It came in a very turbulent decade when the US Civil Rights movement was moving mountains, but very slowly.

JFK was killed in November 1963, Malcolm X in 1965, and shortly after Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy was killed as well.

I was in my teens and so saddened by it all, especially at a time when Peace and Love was supposed to be all around us.

Anyway, enough of my waffling.

If you would like to hear his speech I have seen the promised land CLICK HERE

I'm sure he knew he was about to die.

If you'd like to hear his Ihave a dream speech from 1963 CLICK HERE

Sadly, we still have a way to go to wipe out discrimination, cruelty and inequality in this world, but these remind me that we should all keep trying.

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He certainly sparked the US to sort itself out.