Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Should Have Done This Yesterday)

Here are links to the texts of some of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s writings/speeches that I heard/read parts of over the course of yesterday. The first two most everybody knows about, the last two were less well known (to me at least.) I don’t know what to say about MLK— he was before my time —other than he was one eloquent dude.

• Letter from Birmingham Jail [April 16, 1963]
• I Have A Dream [August 28, 1963]
• Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence [April 4, 1967]
• I’ve Been to the Mountaintop [April 3, 1968]

Democracy Now!— as would be expected —did a nice tribute yesterday and played some excerpts of his speaking.