Ode To Martin Luther King Jr.
For many in America Martin Luther King Jr. day is just another day off of work. Why no universal traditions, mass reflection or soul searching on how to build a better world free of injustice?
Sure, MLK day is an honored time for civil rights activists and an opportunity to shine a light on civil rights and the life of Martin Luther King. But what is it to you? How will you contribute to the dream of MLK this year? Will you help bring people together or drive us further apart?
This playlist honors the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. It may be a good starting point to help you reflect on not just this martyred American hero, but something even more important.
His cause.
"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ode To MLK Playlist
1. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaking - Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. Why? (The King Of Love Is Dead) - Nina Simone
3. Freedom For My People - Satan & Adam
4. Blues For Martin Luther King - Otis Spann
5. Freedom Highway - The Staple Singers
6. Letter To Dr. Martin Luther King - Sweet Honey In The Rock
7. Pride - U2
8. A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
9. We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue - Curtis Mayfield
10. Happy Birthday Martin Luther King - Evan Belize
11. We Must Love Each Other - Martin Luther King, Jr.
12. Message From A Black Man - The Temptations
13. All Of God's Children Ain't Free - Johnny Cash
14. Abraham, Martin And John - Smokey Robinson
15. Freedom Train - Lenny Kravitz
16. March! For Martin Luther King - John Fahey
17. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll - Bob Dylan
18. We Shall Overcome - Bruce Springsteen
19. Martin Luther King - Cathy Fink
20. Martin Luther King Southside - Big Joe Turner
21. I Have A Dream - Herbie Hancock
23. I Shall Be Released - The Band
24. April 4, 1968: Assassination Of Martin Luther King, Jr. - Walter Cronkite
25. MLK - U2
MLK spoke not just for african americans but for all people to come together and be one.
I would love to believe that his dream has been realized but unfortunately, we still live in a society that believes "my race is better than yours."
We live in a society that doesn't value character as much as it values money
We live in society that doesn't even blink as our children kill each other in the streets.
I think if MLK were still alive today, he would cry over what we have done to each other.
Remeber EVERYONE that fought and died to end segregation and what it stood for.
Remember what the words were
"I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
"I Have A Dream" by Common
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"King Holiday" by Run DMC
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