On the 42nd anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination, Rep. Lewis who marched with King said that the country still lacks a "moral leader."
I don’t know if Americans wants a Moral Leader, but I know Americans needs a Moral leader. A leader to stand up for the little people. For the people who pay the price when Wall Street gambles away billions and leaves them with the bill. When your freedoms are taken away in the name of national security.
Obama said. "I think that there's a broader circle around that core group of people [Tea Party] who are legitimately concerned about the deficit, who are legitimately concerned that the federal government may be taking on too much."
MLK understood that the best weapon these people used was fear. They used fear to drive a wedge between the classes. Let us not forget that the people protesting outside are POOR PEOPLE. Poor people are being pinned up against other poor people. The irony. As Lewis said of King. "He pushed us [MLK]. He told us how to stand up and how to fight. I remember him saying on one occasion, soul -- from the depth of his soul that you could stand up and not bend your back. When you stand up straight, no man, no person can ride on your back."
MLK was not there for the rich and famous! He was there for POOR PEOPLE. He stood up for women, gays and the injustice done to black people throughout history.
Let us remember him in the spirit of unity and peace!
We Shall Overcome (MLK January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)
Deep in my heart, I do believe, "we shall overcome."
You know, I've joined hands so often with students and others behind jail bars singing it, "We shall overcome."
Sometimes we've had tears in our eyes when we joined together to sing it, but we still decided to sing it, "We shall overcome." Oh, before this victory's won, some will have to get thrown in jail some more, but we shall overcome.
Don't worry about us. Before the victory's won, some of us will lose jobs, but we shall overcome.
Before the victory's won, even some will have to face physical death. But if physical death is the price that some must pay to free their children from a permanent psychological death, then nothing shall be more redemptive.
We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.
We shall overcome because Carlyle is right, "No lie can live forever."
We shall overcome because William Cullen Bryant is right: "Truth crushed to earth will rise again."
We shall overcome because James Russell Lowell is right: Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne, yet that scaffold sways the future and behind the dim unknown standeth God within the shadows keeping watch above his own.
We shall overcome because the Bible is right, "You shall reap what you sow"
We shall overcome.
Deep in my heart I do believe we shall overcome.
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