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Martin Luther King might be the greatest orator in American history. His words and speeches changed the tide of American history. Not only did he give speeches on integration, but he also gave powerful speeches on poverty and the war in Vietnam. Here’s Martin Luther King’s Top 5 Speeches.

1. I Have A Dream. This might be one of the most well known and referred to  speeches in modern American history.

2. Why I am Opposed to the War In Vietnam. Many people forget about King’s strong anti-war stance. Many of the reasons he opposed the war in Vietnam relate to the current conflicts in Gaza and Iraq.

3. I’ve Been to the Mountain Top. King’s last speech was prophetic. He would die shortly after but his words would live on and inspire people forever.

4. The Urgency of Now. In a theme later used by Barack Obama Martin Luther King showed why integration couldn’t wait.

5. A Time to Break Silence. In this speech, Martin Luther King again outlined his opposition to the war in Vietnam

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    One day, maybe not Obama, but one day… EVERone will be free. Not just the minds of the present, nor the echos of our ancestors… but one day… we will be free. The african american, the white american, the mexican american, the asian american, the mixed american… one day… praise God one day we’ll be free… A Free America!
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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/obama2008/ obama2008

    IT IS INTERESTING HOW BLACK FOLKS THAT ARE TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THINGS FOR HUMANITY (EVEN OUR PRESIDENT) ATTRACT LOVE BUT SO MANY HATERS FROM OTHER BLACK PEOPLE.

    WHEN MLK WAS ALIVE, THERE WERE MANY BLACKS THAT DISAGREED WITH HIS PHILOSOPHIES AND METHODS. SOME BLACKS FEARED THAT KING’S METHODS WOULD ONLY CAUSE MANY BLACKS TO BE KILLED, RUINED, OR ATTACKED WITH LITTLE PROGRESS TO SHOW FOR EFFORTS.

    OF COURSE, NO ONE PROBLEM SOLVING APPROACH, LEADER, OR PHILOSOPHY CAN CLAIM “ALL” OF THE SUCCESSES FOR BLACK PEOPLE OVER THE LAST 150 YEARS…..QUITE THE CONTRARY, IT WAS THE SYNERGISTIC EFFECT OF EFFORTS OF MANY APPROACHES, MILLIONS OF INDIVIDUALS, LEADERS,& ORGANIZATIONS THAT RESULTED IN POSITIVE CHANGES FOR BLACK PEOPLE….

    THANK GOD FOR DR. KING…..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Macita03/ Macita03

    These speeches will always continue to be important beacuse of how MLK helped change lives…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mixedking85/ mixedking85

    casey i normally cant stand your posts but thank u for puttin all those in one place. how much do we need you right now brother king we love you, i love and miss you. r.i.p

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/diamondsrlynn/ diamondsrlynn

    NOW IS THE TIME FOR US TO RISE UP AND DO THE RIGHT THING,WE AS BLACKS NEED TO COME TOGHETHER AND LEARN HOW TO GET ALONG,AS LONG AS THE KILLINGS ARE GOING ON BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER THE PEOPLE AND YOU KNOW WHO I AM TALKING ABOUT DOES NOT CARE,BECAUSE WE ARE KILLING EACH OTHER,THIS IS THE DAY WE CELEBRATE A MAN THAT WANTED ALL OF THIS FOR US.THANK GOD FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING MAY HE REST IN PEACE.OUR FREEDOM IS BOUND.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Altrupassion/ Altrupassion

    Obama 2008 is all over the place with his post.
    Please My Brother, name another civil rights leader and what march they held, what jail they spent time in, how many death threats they received, how many bullets they took then name an organization other than the NAACP or Nation of Islam that you think or know attributed/contributed to you having the civil liberties that you have today. To marginalize or minimize Dr. Martin Luther King is beyond reason. After that please let all of uf know what million people and what country fought for your civil rights, what country de-invested itself from the economic windfall, what country in the United Nations took the floor and declared that modern day slavery shouldnt be allowed in the U.S. Your comments are typical of a 2011 Negro.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/natow9/ natow9

    Martin L. King we are going to stay on top of your Dream for future generations we will never let The Dream Die.

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    If not free in our hearts,we are free in our minds..

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    I came across an on line com’munity for indi’vidual se e’king i’nter ra cial lo v’e. It is __Bla ckWhi teCu pid * C0 m ___ All si’n gles there are se e’king int’er racial re la’ti ons’hips. Inte rr’acial is not a problem there, but a great merit to cherish!’when you gonna make up your mind

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bignblacktyronne/ bignblacktyronne

    Please people, a speech is something that you listen to and hear, it is NOT something that you watch. The news media does this all of the time, it is simply pathetic.
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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blackbizman2008/ blackbizman2008

    Good article. Now it’s time to take the foundation he laid and take it to the next level.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/kingsize78/ kingsize78

    its great dat someone like MARTIN LUTHER saw a DREAM dat he neva lived 2 see it, but gave a us a reason to DREAM so dat others can LIVE experience it just as we are EXPERIENCING MARTIN’s DREAM. I give tanks 2 GOD for sending to us such an INSTRUMENT of PEACE a GENERATIONAL MOTIVATOR wen we needed it the most. I tank 4 LUTHER’s Family were ever they are. GOD bless them all give them reasons celebrate LUTHER’s LANDMARK today and always.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Door_Gunner/ Door_Gunner

    MY COMMENTS ON THESE:

    No. 2 & 5) KINGS SPEECH ON VIETMAN;… Did you know that 50% of the people killed in Vietnam where killed by Friendly Fire?

    But the REAL TRAJEDY is that in addition to that… 50% of “ALL” African Americans that “went” to Vietnam… where KILLED.

    PLUS…

    All I have to say about No. 3 is this) ** Compelling evidence implicates “Jesse Jackson” as a conspirator in the Murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. **

    ********* http://jessejacksonmlk.blogspot.com/ **********

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    Freedom for all people will not come until HE, who promised that HE would come to deliver his people, comes….God told Abraham that his seed would be a stranger in a land that was not theirs for 400 yrs, and after that time, he said, “I” will come to deliver them. This world is so corrupt that only God’s return can cleanse it. He gave Satan, but a season to rule. Some have calculated that a season is about 6,000 yrs. So, the 6,000 yr rule of Satan is just about up.
    The reason we don’t see changes in the world is because the same 5 White people that control everything are still in charge. They control countries, public thinking, what you see, and what’s not revealed to you. This is why they can assassinate leaders and get away with it; create chaos in countries and then have it reported that the people are tired of the regimes…All of that stuff that’s happening in the Middle East on North Africa right now is nothing more than CIA Theatre! Purpose-fleecing the American people with high fuel prices, even though MOST of the middle east oil goes to Japan & Western Europe. (Yeah, CNN isn’t going to tell you that). The Rothchild family is worth over $500 Trillion dollars…not billion;Trillion. The Rockefeller’s family fortune is estimated to be over $11 Trillion dollars…Queen Elizabeth has untold wealth…but her money & investments are such that she earns over $360 million dollars EVERY 24 HOURS..and this is just INTEREST that she earns off of her investments. This is why the world is in the condition that it’s in, and they put people in positions to serve them and their interest, and when they get tired of them, they either tell them that they have to leave, or be assassinated. Mubarack is leaving and thinking that he’s gonna keep that 60 billion dollar fortune that he got in foreign aid from American taxpayers, but he’ll find out quickly that it will all be taken away from him, and he’ll be given a monthly stipend to live on

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/savior_of_theworld/ savior_of_theworld

    GET OFF THE BACK OF THE RICH

    My friends, my brothers and my sisters, I call on us to reassess, reevaluate our lives. I call on us as one people, an evolvement from the same source; the human family. Let us represent this family in an obvious way. I call on us to be love letters to one another, messengers to the world.
    I want to say, beyond doubt, there are amongst us, people that have the same desires as ours. In fact there are common desires, needs, wants and requirements existing between us all. Is there any amongst us that should have these denied? No!
    Our primary parents caused a manifestation of these commonalities within us for a purpose; that we could be peaceful, happy, joyous and prosperous, in living life. I beseech you to think like this; all Republicans are good people. Regardless of what we may have thought about them in the past, they are good people. all Democrats, I don’t care what you think about them, are good people. Tea Party and others, with different political persuasions are good people, as well. Conservatives, liberal, the rich, the poor, gay and straight are all good people. We think different, due to our indoctrination in life but we are all good people.
    As members of the human family, I propose we spend our time contemplating ways and means to satisfy all, in such a family as this. Or the question would become, who amongst us should be satisfied and who should not. If the question was put directly to us, each of us would agree that we should be and none of us think, for one minute, that we should not be satisfied. Nevertheless, in our indoctrination, we can think of a lot of people and reasons why someone else should have their satisfaction withheld.
    I ask us, as a family, how in this world can we assure ourselves that this family can be satisfied and protected from any force that would prevent or destroy such an accomplishment? It would help to have the problem identified. The problem is not the people. The problem is the system, that splits us up into races, different movements, movements that are relegated towards acquiring an attainment that would deny another that same possession, if desired. Thus, suggesting that some should, while others should not; further suggesting entitlement verses non-entitlement. Some and not all is a statement of the system. The system will not permit such a conclusion.
    As people of the same human family, the ways and means have been provided for such a conclusion to happen. It is inc**bent on us, that have had our programs erased, rewound, our minds renewed, to inhibit our old ways of thinking and advocate for the wisdom of the family. Out of love for one another, we are called to rise up, identify the ways that such things can be accomplished. Promote, advocate, speak out for the ways that work for all family members and teach those that have not had a reawakening yet, who still believe that everything should be split, divided. Teach them our commitment to our new vision of life, the original parent’s vision and make it happen.
    I call on all of you to get involved to make this happen. Thank you.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/The_jews_r_black/ The_jews_r_black

    Our people (blacks hispanics and native americans) dont even see the game When
    Martin Luther (Sellout) King wanted us to mix races with this cracker it was a
    sellout tragedy because whites got rich and we forced racist white people to take our money and black stores were brought out and now we don’t even have a means of support, very clever on this cracker to figure out a way to destroy us using these no good so-called nigga leaders! Before this uncle tom we had our own we was a family if one had it everyone else could get it now it is all about selfishness now these crackers want to mix everybody up like the kingdom of Babylon to fight against GOD while he rules us all!

    Everytime they promote mixing with the other races this means that you become
    weak and the race you mix with gets stronger because these other races are not getting down with your people and laws we get down with their way of life and forget our customs and laws ? So that is one
    more nigga (slave) thats getting down with his way of life! I will give you examples in
    the past, black people had their own baseball teams right? Why did the white
    man want us to integrate? Because he knows we were the people of God and we were
    getting more popular then they were and if we would have stayed separate they would be looking at us as great and NO ONE wants to see a bunch of crackers
    play so he integrated and by doing so he became rich and we brought our flavor
    to his teams! The same with basketball and so on… There was a time in History
    when black people were separate it was called Black Wallstreet we had our own
    doctors, lawyers, banks and so forth and the white man bombed that place and
    set it on fire .you know why? He never wants us to come together as a strong
    nation that is a threat to his society because he knows that the LORD said that
    if we stay separate from these other nations that we would be above them!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/The_jews_r_black/ The_jews_r_black

    Why do you think white people are pushing him every Feb and they linked him up with this African Obama? Why do you really think this is? Think black mqan you supposed to recognize game and you cant see it from another level? They playing game on you and your people to get you to join white society. They killed King because he realized that he had join his people “into a burning house”. Instead of telling us about HIS dream he should of told us about God’s word!!! Another thing why do white people have to join hands to and sing free at last free at last? Them crackers already are free!!

    Alot of LIES and deception! King was a set up by the white man to get us to join his society..they needed a slave market!

    Martin Luther King was a false prophet and you can tell his prophecy was false because we are
    more destroyed and dying more than ever so his dream was a white mans dream but
    a black mans nightmare!

    Most black people think we are not slaves but the bible considers when one
    nation of people take another nation and use them to build their society that
    they are slaves!!!! Look at anciet Egypt the Israelites (blacks,hispanics,native americans) were slaves under the Egyptians (africans) and those slaves made Egypt great and when God wanted to
    free them they didn’t want to leave because they had good food, clothes and so
    forth but the LORD considered them in captivity under the Egyptians just like
    black people now we dont own the land if you dont pay taxes you’ll find out how
    much you dont! Some black people will argue that they own this land NO ONE OWNS
    this land But we think we are free!

    Just like our ancestors did when they came out of slavery they were walking
    around on the land and was looking for their family and the white man didn’t
    want to give them the land so he came up with rental properties and Jim Crow
    which just extended the borders of the slaves! What makes matter even worse is
    that black people think they are free but you have to get this crackers
    permission to leave the country and tell him when you gonna return. He wants
    to keep close tabs on his slaves and that is just for the people that can
    afford it lack of money enslaves you as well because you cant get to the places
    you want to go. Too many bills makes you a slave because now you got to go to
    work for the man that you owe! Point being we are still slaves! So what
    Martin Luther King did was a major catastrophe we are worst off then we ever
    been! Thats why these crackers are honoring him. They honor the people fighting
    for them but our heroes are the ones they select for us!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/The_jews_r_black/ The_jews_r_black

    Martin Luther King was a false prophet and lied on Gods word and loved to sleep with white girls!!! You can tell his prophecy was false because we are more destroyed and dying more than ever so his dream was a white mans dream but a black mans nightmare!

    Jer 23:25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name,
    saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

    Jer 23:26 How long shall [this] be in the heart of the prophets that
    prophesy lies? yea, [they are] prophets of the deceit of their own heart;

    God told us about this man along time ago and called him a LYING prophet
    reason is that he told us to stay separate and all through the bible we
    preferred the other nations above our own people and god punished us for it by
    sending us into captivity under these nations like we are now!

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  • eugenia michelle brown

    I feel so sorry for you; there is so much of personal hate and demonic issuses that you have within. Truth
    will free all. If we as a race that has been blessed by GOD would wake up and stop being our own worse e
    nemy-Black on Black crime; refusing to recieve education which is for all. GOD blessed all with free will
    there is a fork in the road it is up to that individual to choose his path.
    The poison that comes from you is distasteful; Just because a person decides to better themselves they
    are labeled as a sell out. I had a business in healthcare; I also tutored those that needed assistance; there
    are jobs that require completion of GED/High School-many of our young today think that the world owes
    them; they are not willing to work; attend college/vocational training, no they want to just step into a pos
    ition and get paid that is not how that goes. We need positive individuals to school those that are willin
    g to learn; not a bitter individual such as yourself-the next time that you attempt to comment-think befor
    e you speak; relax take a deep breath; ask GOD for the spirit of love/clarity-then look in the mirror becau
    se the one you called “cracker” really is how you see yourself because we all are bro/sis created by GOD

  • http://www.facebook.com/ora.thornton Ora Thornton

    I had a Dream that A Black Woman was free and that her children were safe!
    My children are now in the custody of a man who is an Adult Ward, with suicide letters, a threat to my children CPS records and a threat to the community. He was arrested for Felony Arson!

  • Marlene Blakely

    If you were in Obama shoes what would you differently? We all say what we would do but given the chance do we live up to our expectations. God is the one with total control not man, to put things in the proper perspective there is only one President that can do what no man can do GOD is President. Focus on the good negativity is not good. What have you did to contribute to anything that matters in this world to make a difference other than point the finger at someone who has tried to make a difference. We can only go so far and then that is it. Were you ever elected as the President of the U.S.? If you haven’t worn the shoes try them on and pick the right size. And to think you know what someone would agree too is in sane. MLK is dead and have no knowledge of what is taking place. He lived his life, dreamed his dream and left a legacy. If you can not resurrect him to get an answer don’t assume you know the answer. When you assume you know what you make out of yourself. Be real and genuine not full of jealousy and hatred. You sound like the devil trying to influence others to go to hell with him because he did not like the way God is running things. Stop committing suicide and look at yourself and change what you can about self find congruence in your life. Or is this a tactic to discourage votes for a man of confidence and knowledge. Maybe he is too much like King and instead of assassinating him this is an undercover assassination?

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