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Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vDWWy4CMhE
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Were you round back then? He was killed 4 years before I was born.
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DBowling was around when Martin Luther nailed a copy of his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church.
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edwardmurphy wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 8:12 am Were you round back then? He was killed 4 years before I was born.
Yes, I was alive when MLK gave his classic "I Have a Dream" speech ... barely :)
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I was 11 when this happened - and can remember we'd just pulled up in the driveway from running errands, heard it on the car radio - it was quite shocking. At the time, I really didn't know what he was all about, except that most whites either disliked him or viewed him as a rabble-rousing danger. And if our society would only take the approach King preached, whether racially or politically, we'd have a much more peaceful and harmonious society. But those that have an "us vs. them" mentality, who want to win at all costs, never desire to negotiate or facilitate understandings, and are out to demonize and destroy those they see as their enemies - well, they're ruining our world with their hatred and divisiveness!
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April 4, 1968. The day MLK was assassinated. I remember like it was yesterday. I was approximately a 1-2 week old embryo.

It was a sad day indeed.
John 5:24
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Was he the guy who gave that "I have a dream" speech? Man I always loved that speech.America would be alot more harmonious if we followed that speech.I loved the guy.
Hebrews 12:2-3 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith;who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross,despising the shame,and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

2nd Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not,lest the light of this glorious gospel of Christ,who is the image of God,should shine unto them.
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Thank you for reminding us.
Good for me to have read the speech and being reminded of it.
But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good.
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I've watched that speech so many times and it never fails to hit me right in heart. I was about 8 when I first heard it, by that time Martin Luther King Jr was long passed. I was bored on the weekend, trying to escape cricket or some other sport on Australian TV when I came across a documentary about the civil rights movement. I remember it because of the impact it had on me.
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Abel: Was he the guy who gave that "I have a dream" speech?
Wow, Abe - you must be a lot younger than I thought! :)

:econfused: Uh, good thing I have an elder on here (BYBLOS! My man! :mrgreen: )
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Philip wrote: Tue Jan 22, 2019 9:14 am
Abel: Was he the guy who gave that "I have a dream" speech?
Wow, Abe - you must be a lot younger than I thought! :)

:econfused: Uh, good thing I have an elder on here (BYBLOS! My man! :mrgreen: )
How old do you think I really am?
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Well, Bybly Boy - you are eligible to join a very exclusive club - but it's daily losing membership!

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DBowling wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:20 am Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vDWWy4CMhE
This was 31 years before I was born.
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Philip wrote: Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:29 pm Well, Bybly Boy - you are eligible to join a very exclusive club - but it's daily losing membership!
Speak for yourself, I was a mere infant at the end of the Mesozoic Era. :mrgreen:
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Byblos wrote: Tue Jan 22, 2019 2:18 pm
Philip wrote: Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:29 pm Well, Bybly Boy - you are eligible to join a very exclusive club - but it's daily losing membership!
Speak for yourself, I was a mere infant at the end of the Mesozoic Era. :mrgreen:
It's nice to hear from you Byblos. At your age, I was wondering if you might've kicked the bucket.
John 5:24
24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.


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-Edward R Murrow




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