{"id":31511,"date":"2023-01-16T10:47:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T15:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=31511"},"modified":"2023-01-16T11:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T16:09:03","slug":"martin-luther-king-jr-the-other-america-speech-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=31511","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King Jr: &#8220;The Other America&#8221; Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m3H978KlR20\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Martin Luther King&#8217;s &#8220;Other America&#8221;\u009d speech should be as well known and well listened to as his other more famous speeches. People need to learn what life is like in the &#8220;other America&#8221; King describes in powerful and compelling words.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">He did several versions of this speech in different places. Some of them are online in text and\/or taped versions. This link is to the full speech as delivered at Stanford. It runs 47 minutes. It is worth every minute to get the impact of the full message.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">King&#8217;s &#8220;a riot is the language of the unheard&#8221; quote comes from this speech. Unfortunately, the now oft quoted &#8220;riot&#8221;\u009d phrase is too often taken out of context to say something very different from what King is saying. In no uncertain terms King repeatedly condemns riots and violence.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">King was for non-violence. But not a passive, &#8220;wait and see non-violence&#8221;. He was for a very aggressive but non-violent confrontation of the evils in America. He was willing to put his life on the line for what he believed.<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Luther King&#8217;s &#8220;Other America&#8221;\u009d speech should be as well known and well listened to as his other more famous speeches. People need to learn what life is like in the &#8220;other America&#8221; King describes in powerful and compelling words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31513,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31511\/revisions\/31513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}