At least once a year, you should listen to this speech in its entirety.
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Set aside for a minute, if you can, the great historical significance of this speech, and the hopeful message of justice is embodies. Aside from all of those important things, it is just a masterpiece of public speaking. The cadence, the progression and clarity of the ideas embodied, at every point this speech just soars.
Choppy. Here is an alternative link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk
Thanks muchly.
It is not just a masterpiece of public speaking, it is clutch too. This guy delivered “the” speech at the right moment. This speech was the buzzer beater, the grand slam, the winning touchdown, the hole in one… speech. I don’t usually blame the Holy Spirit for things but I have got to say, this seems to have HIS fingerprints all over it.
Yesterday my kids and I Marched in the MLK parade in remembrance of the Selma to Montgomery march. Every time these words were played, whoever was near, my self and my kids included, stopped to listen.
I start to tear up at the same spot every time - “Stone Mountain of Georgia”
Yes, it so powerful, and still so pertinent