Rhiannon Giddens Instagram – These are excerpts from a very different dream speech from MLK, Jr. He says a lot here, July 4, 1965.
(10:15):
…that through our scientific genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood. Now, through our moral and ethical commitment, we must make of it a brotherhood, and we must all learn to live together as brothers [and sisters] or we will all perish together as fools. Every individual must learn this and every nation must learn this. Every nation must realize its dependence on other nations.
(13:13):
All I’m saying is simply this, that all life is interrelated. We are tied in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, it affects all indirectly. As long as there is extreme poverty in this world, no one can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant, and millions of people cannot expect to live more than 28 or 30 years, no one can be totally healthy even if he just got a checkup in the finest clinic of the nation.
(22:12):
Now we must get rid of two false ideas in order to continue to engage in creative protests. One idea is the myth of time. There are those people who argue that time alone will solve this problem. So, they say you must not push things. You must be patient. You must sit down and wait. And sometimes they decorate it in even larger terms. They say cool off for a while, slow up for a while. Time is the only thing that can solve this problem. What we must come to see is that evolution is true in the biological realm. So, Darwin is right at that point.
(23:01):
But when Herbert Spencer seeks to apply it to the whole of society there is little evidence for it. Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals. And without this hard work, time itself becomes the ally of the insurgent and primitive forces of irrational emotionalism and social stagnation, so that we must somehow get rid of this idea that time alone with solve the problem. We must use time.
The whole speech has so much in it. Link in bio.
PS – his expression is exactly how I feel. | Posted on 21/Jan/2025 00:27:32
