This powerful excerpt from a speech given in 1967 to the Southern Christian Leadership Council shows why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a prophet in his time and a true witness to the message of the Gospel.
Martin Luther King - Where Do We Go From Here? (Conclusion) from MLK Speeches on Vimeo.
His unfailing sense of the call of Jesus Christ to all people to create a just world, where the hungry are fed and the poor uplifted was extraordinary - and his delivery an authentic call for all to cooperate with God to recreate the world into a living image of the Kingdom is timeless.
Dr. King was a gift to our nation, whose speeches are worth listening to again and again. The blatant racial prejudice he fought against has lessened, to be sure, but the oppression of the poor by the rich and the failure of our nation and world to deliver justice for all still rings true. One cannot but hear echoes of the current economic situation and political debates in what he said, and wish perhaps, that more had changed.
I'd also recommend reading Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Takes maybe 20 minutes.
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