{"id":6792,"date":"2012-01-16T00:11:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T08:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6792"},"modified":"2012-01-16T00:11:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T08:11:35","slug":"remembering-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/16\/remembering-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"16king\" border=\"0\" alt=\"16king\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/16king.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"273\" \/>Martin Luther King, Jr. influenced my political thinking more than any other individual.&#160; I was fortunate to have worked under him on Vietnam Summer and to have been present at two of his greatest speeches, presented below.&#160; Many things have changed since those days.&#160; Northern Republicans were often progressive.&#160; Southern Democrats, aka Dixiecrats,&#160; were the biggest racists then, but they deserted the Democratic 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 life, I have video of \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d, delivered in Washington Mall on August 28, 1963 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 <\/font>\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><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/smEqnnklfYs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence \u2013<\/font> <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><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OC1Ru2p8OfU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/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 individual.&#160; I was fortunate to have worked under him on Vietnam Summer and to have been present at two of his greatest speeches, presented below.&#160; Many things have changed since those days.&#160; Northern Republicans were often progressive.&#160; Southern Democrats, aka Dixiecrats,&#160; were the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/16\/remembering-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-2\/' 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-6792","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\/6792","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=6792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}