{"id":3880,"date":"2011-01-17T10:13:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T18:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2011-01-17T10:13:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T18:13:14","slug":"mlk-as-we-remember-the-man-the-dream-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/17\/mlk-as-we-remember-the-man-the-dream-remains\/","title":{"rendered":"MLK: As We Remember the Man, the Dream Remains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Martin Luther King, Jr. influenced my political thinking more than any other, and I was fortunate to have worked under him on Vietnam Summer and to have been present at two of his greatest speeches.&#160; Many thinks have changed since those days.&#160; Northern Republicans were often progressive.&#160; Southern Democrats, aka Dixiecrats,&#160; deserted the party because of Dr. King\u2019s successes and are now the Republican base.&#160; But both his Dream and the need for his opposition to wars of aggression remain.&#160; To celebrate his like, I have video of \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d, delivered in Washington Mall on August 28, 1063 and audio of \u201cBeyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence\u201d, delivered in New York on April 4, 1967.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I Have a Dream \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.famous-speeches-and-speech-topics.info\/martin-luther-king-speeches\/martin-luther-king-speech-i-have-a-dream.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Text<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"640\" height=\"505\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PbUtL_0vAJk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PbUtL_0vAJk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"505\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.famous-speeches-and-speech-topics.info\/martin-luther-king-speeches\/martin-luther-king-speech-beyond-vietnam.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Text<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"640\" height=\"505\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OC1Ru2p8OfU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OC1Ru2p8OfU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"505\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The dream still lives.&#160; Keeping it alive is our responsibility.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Luther King, Jr. influenced my political thinking more than any other, and I was fortunate to have worked under him on Vietnam Summer and to have been present at two of his greatest speeches.&#160; Many thinks have changed since those days.&#160; Northern Republicans were often progressive.&#160; Southern Democrats, aka Dixiecrats,&#160; deserted the party because <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/17\/mlk-as-we-remember-the-man-the-dream-remains\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday","category-politics","category-145-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}