The REAL Martin Luther King Jr.
Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN6LybRnCzY
Part Three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW-_r-fGKrM
Part Four: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn-WHJgaZTM
Part Five: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDHzKqRA1zU
Part Six: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH-J3tbqBa0
Part Seven: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWj4BbvlgP8
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"I've been to the mountaintop."
My hypothesis -- and I think I've mentioned it before -- is that MLK was threatened before he was assassinated. Perhaps this first took the form of a threat to expose facts about his private sexual relationships, but then was probably made more clearly a death threat. This is the highlight from the speech he made the day before he was killed. He knew what was going to happen and he continued with with the work he thought was morally imperative ("God's will," in his language.) If you can watch this without crying you are truly a hard-boiled cynic.
The whole speech is also well worth listening to:
Part One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI_tQ5DdFAk
Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n53GuVt0tlY
what would MLK do?
is not a bad way to live one's life. he wasn't afraid of his imperfections and did not let them stop him doing what he knew had to be done, to the death but never threatening to use force. and so must we.