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The LONE REPUBLICAN that showed up at the MLK speeches

NY Times (Oct 11, 1991):

"A committee of scholars appointed by Boston University concluded today that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarized passages in his dissertation for a doctoral degree at the university 36 years ago. 'There is no question,' the committee said in a report to the university's provost, 'but that Dr. King plagiarized in the dissertation by appropriating material from sources not explicitly credited in notes, or mistakenly credited, or credited generally and at some distance in the text from a close paraphrase or verbatim quotation.'"
 
I think MLKjr was very wise beyond his years....and his day.

I heard this audio from MLKjr yesterday on Rush. I think the ideas MLKjr had were so very impressive...... (this is the transcript from that part of his show)...(this was from a speech at Barrett Junior High School that MLKjr made in 1967, I believe)

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KING: What I'm saying to you this morning, my friends: Even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures! Sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well!" If you can't be a pine on the top of a hill, be a scrub in the valley, but be the best little scrub on the side of the rill. Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. It isn't by size that you win or you fail; be the best at whatever that you are!

RUSH: You don't hear that sadly from anybody in politics anymore. You certainly don't hear that on the Democrat side, and sadly, you don't hear this on the Republican side from very many people. I'm gonna play that for you again. This is Dr. King. This is years after the "I Have a Dream" speech, which was 1963. This was five years later in Philadelphia, to some junior high school students. The school was Barrett Junior High.

KING: What I'm saying to you this morning, my friends: Even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures! Sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well!" If you can't be a pine on the top of a hill, be a scrub in the valley, but be the best little scrub on the side of the rill. Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. It isn't by size that you win or you fail; be the best at whatever that you are!

RUSH: And when you meet God, at the end of your life, you've been the best you can be at whatever your lot in life was. This was a man... If I may translate this, this was a man speaking to the weak. He wasn't coddling them. He's saying be as strong as you can be. Be the best you can be. He was not coddling the weak. He was not excusing them. By "weak," I mean meek, whatever. I'm not talking about weak in character. It's clear what he's talking about.

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I think Rush is naive if he thinks MLKjr wouldnt have been on board with Obamacare. In 1968 King had begun to change his focus from civil rights to "economic rights".
There are forty million poor people here, and one day we must ask the question, 'Why are there forty million poor people in America?' And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising a question about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I'm simply saying that more and more, we've got to begin to ask questions about the whole society...And you see, my friends, when you deal with this you begin to ask the question, 'Who owns the oil?' You begin to ask the question, 'Who owns the iron ore?' You begin to ask the question, 'Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that's two-thirds water?' These are words that must be said.- MLKjr
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BlueEyesInLevis said:
I think Rush is naive if he thinks MLKjr wouldnt have been on board with Obamacare. In 1968 King had begun to change his focus from civil rights to "economic rights".
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I do agree MLK's focus had changed. But I would disagree with he would be onboard with obamacare. I think MLK wanted Blacks to rise up and be all that they could be....not to lie down and expect the government to take care of them.
 
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