Comments on: forty years ago

By: pinkhammer

pinkhammer — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:17:13 +0000

Somehow I want to be like him when I grow up. I wonder what that’s going to look like…

By: NotShyChiRev

NotShyChiRev — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:17:20 +0000

Thanks…I have a wonderful book of great American speeches and this speech is one of those I go back to every so often…to remember the man, to remember how to speak in public, to remember be thankful, to remember.

By: Diane

Diane — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:09:38 +0000

thank you for sharing this today.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:27:49 +0000

RM, thanks for posting this today. I’ve been thinking a lot about buts of this speech that float in my head earlier..then worship in Chapel today at Crusty Ol Theo Sem was pretty intense - dramatic reading/interp of sections of Grapes of Wrath and Revelation, singing Bob Marley’s Lion of Judah (voices and drum - R Proctor!)…followed by the Lord’s Supper framed as an act of resistance…preceded by my son’s first letter from basic trainig talking about how odd it was to bring an M16 to chapel the Sunday after Easter and getting an email from a young friend/2Lt platoon leader in Iraq complete with photos yesterday. Now these printed words. It’s a bit much to concentrate on more mundane matters today like writing an Emmaus text sermon for Sunday when I want to just sit and reflect and pray and weep and hope.

By: CGAuntie

CGAuntie — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:59:13 +0000

As far as I can recall, that’s the first time I’ve ever seen the text of his speech that night. I just don’t remember ever knowing that those were the words he spoke on that fateful evening.

My, my.

By: Mamala

Mamala — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:59:54 +0000

Tavis Smiley has been interviewing many that were there that fateful day. I miss MLK and wish he was here today to know that his dream is being fulfilled. He would so be behind Senator Obama!

I love living in DC and much of that is being around Afican Americans, whose spirt I adore.

By: ppb

ppb — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:25:12 +0000

I wish I had been around for this. I mean, I guess I was born but I was more interested in raisins than in what I now consider to be the greatest person in American history. And I’m glad he didn’t sneeze.

By: Rev Dr Mom

Rev Dr Mom — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:09:38 +0000

I heard this on NPR this morning.

I didn’t hear the speech 40 years ago, but I do remember the next day, and how incredibly sad it felt. And how it was followed a few months later with RFK’s death.

I was young teenager, and the loss of hope was like a deflating balloon. I think about that when I think about Obama’s candidacy and the hope it has brought ot people, young people especially. I don’t that hope to be deflated.

Thanks for posting this.