From: Roxtica-AT-aol.com
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:03:11 EST
Subject: Happy King Day!



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Happy King Day!

Below are two excerpts from Martin Luther King's speech on:
A Realistic Look at the Question of Progress in the Area of Race Relations
Address at Freedom Rally 
10 April 1957 
St. Louis, Mo
    
    taken from: http://www.mlkonline.com/ballot.html

"We are not fighting for ourselves alone but we are fighting for this nation. 
(Amen) Go back and tell those people who are telling us to slow up that there 
are approximately two billion four hundred million people in this world. Go 
back and tell them that two-thirds of these people are colored. (Yes, sir) Go 
back and tell them that one billion six hundred million of the people of the 
world are colored. (Yes) Most of them live on two continents. Six hundred 
million in China. Four hundred million in India and Pakistan. A hundred 
million in Indonesia. Two hundred million in Africa. Eighty-six million in 
Japan. These people for years have lived under the bondage of colonialism and 
imperialism. (Yes, sir) One day they got tired. One day these people got 
tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. (Yes) One day 
they got tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July, 
left standing in the piercing chill of an alpine November. So as a result of 
their tiredness they decided to rise up and protest against colonialism and 
imperialism. As a result of their rising up, more than one billion three 
hundred million of the colored peoples of the world have broken aloose from 
colonialism and imperialism. (Yes, sir) They have broken aloose from the 
Egypt of colonialism. [applause] They have broken aloose from the Egypt of 
colonialism, and now they are moving through the wilderness of adjustment 
toward the Promised Land of cultural integration. And as they look back you 
know what they are saying? ARacism and colonialism must go in this world. (Yes
) They assembled in Bandung some months ago and that was the word that echoed 
from Bandung: "Racism and colonialism must go." [applause]"

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