a bit late, but.
Dr. King wrote more than one speech in his life.
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant 'Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
(Letter from a Birmingham Jail)
Not actually a speech, but.
What he has to say about white moderates, in particular, is difficult for me as a white person to hear, and so all the more important that I listen.
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant 'Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
(Letter from a Birmingham Jail)
Not actually a speech, but.
What he has to say about white moderates, in particular, is difficult for me as a white person to hear, and so all the more important that I listen.