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[quote author=Jenifa_ link=topic=635614.msg8052197#msg8052197 date=1301947177]the mother. and this is more true today than ever.

many families don't even have a father figure. but the mom is generally always there[/quote]

I think we can find it easily now, so I'm not too bothered.

[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=590933.msg8057801#msg8057801 date=1302016955]BTW, Isale, is your last name "Oyekan" ? I can''t believe you had Nightingale singing in your living room.

At the rate things are going, We might as well request you dash us some plots of land at Lekki or Marina side. Isalegangan is omo-onile proper. . .

Naijababe sounds Okoyaish or maybe Folawiyoish. . .Eyin le l'eko oo

Whistling  ~San mari adugbo yii e jade wa o, e jade wa o, ke wa gbo na? si awa o~[/quote]Funny, I recently met a pretty college student named Folawiyo.  I think it's about time I give her a call.  If she's one of those Folawiyos I bet she'd make a great wife for a nice Naija man (Kilode).  

I wish I had land FOR ME.  Not to talk of land to give away to my NL peeps.

My name's not Oyekan.  Although, I've been to his palace. Saw him on his throne.  With some man praising him and walking backwards.  Apparently, you don't turn your back on the king. 

I just realized my life as a kid was ten times the life I have now.  Daaaaammmmnnnnn!   

naijababe:
Two of my personal favourites (sorry folks dont know how to embed)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPOBrhlhL9o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrbBbZ4BsbE&feature=related

Wonders shall never cease sha. 

Tunji Oyelana: Mo Lo Soko
[flash=480,360]http://www.youtube.com//v/ZPOBrhlhL9o[/flash]

I.K. Dairo: Feso Jaiye
[flash=480,360]http://www.youtube.com//v/mrbBbZ4BsbE&feature=related[/flash]

The late Ambrose Campbell, Nigerian musician/songwriter

[flash=600,400]http://www.youtube.com//v/BaNhsuuT55g[/flash]

[flash=520,360]http://www.youtube.com//v/iG7SnFmt84c[/flash]

[flash=420,380]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeTCVojVE2Q?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash]

He needs a lawyer.  Doesn't even have to be a good one.  

From the fear and confusion in his eyes, I'm guessing he was set up, then drugged, hence suffering the bout of temporary amnesia.  It's a good thing the poor youth wasn't killed.  Lets just give praise.  

Were you always this bad and I just didn't notice?  Anyway, I bet your're proud of yourself - you've corrupted a previously inanimate PhysicsDUD to your prurient testerone-infused style of posting.

P.S.: When I start ignoring you and naijababe, you can both go start your own thread/blog.  And take your problem child(ren) with ya.

[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=590933.msg8054114#msg8054114 date=1301974620]NL Muse? was your MLK speech posted to inspire a Nigerian revolution against Political oppression? [/quote]There's more where that came from.  I am inspired!   

Did you see where MLK was referencing all these historical events mixed in with correct analysis of bilblical stories?  The value of a great Morehouse education on display there.  Plus a life dedicated to righting societal wrongs.  How many of the tv-church prosperity-preaching "men of god" can talk like that nowadays?  Of course, THEY went to the university of "show me the money!"

[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=590933.msg8054114#msg8054114 date=1301974620]@Isale, Those songs reminded me of my Grand ma. memories  [/quote]heeheehee.  I held back o jere.  Didn't want to restart the ajebo-this-and-that finger-pointing. Tunde Nightingale was a fave of my granma's too.  That's why I love him.  My most glaring memory of Nightingale's is of him and his band of about half-dozen playing live in our living room.  All in row, sitting down, with Mr. Tunde in the center.  It was obviously later in his life, cos he looked nothing like that picture in my post, other than that he was dapper - being nicely dressed in (if I remember correctly) a suit or dashiki, and I remember a balding head and a shiny face.  Just him and his blessing of a voice.  That is true talent, I tell ya.  Sounded better live than on his album. 

Great memories, man.


[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=590933.msg8054114#msg8054114 date=1301974620]I keep trying to remember a song with these lyrics: O si o si o lele, si o lele o, si o si o lele it's supposed to be an Eko song.[/quote]

naijababe:
That song is Wura Fadaka's Sanmari Adugbo, it's on you tube. Got a CD on my last trip to Lasgidi

What about this question:

Isn't he did the one who did a song that goes:
"If your mother and your wife were drowning, tell me which one you will be saving. . ."?
I can never forget that one.

naijababe:
The yanks have done a good job on your brain

I don't even KNOW you anymore.  'Twas fun while it lasted sha. 

Some people don't have anything to say other than "inneresting," cos they've never loved anyone but their pervy selves.

I'm not mentioning any names. 

Sweetnecta:
Often the feeling from the gut is wrong.

If God were to be father to anyone among mankind, it would have been Adam [AS] foremost. Then Eve because have no earthling parents. There are creatures of God that are far superior than them. God then said in many parts of the Quran, but i will like you to read Surah Maryam where The Almighty says it does not befit His Own Majesty to have any offspring [negating false claims of being His children when even one is honored as a begotten son/child, and further elevated to be His partner and even Him], all that in Heavens and Earth and in between [seen and unseen] are but servants to Him, needing Him, always [at least in time of distress must cry to Him] while He does not need any of them to be complete.

Reality is that the Muslim man is your father while God is your Creator, hence the claim of you being God's daughter is simple of your own without any proof [really a false hope]. You are aways going to remain your father's bloodline/progeny/daughter. No one in his right mind will ever say your surname is God, but that of my nigerian muslim brother.

I am sure that you do know the success rate of the British Hindu Indians, in almost every field? Who do they pray to but their god/idol which as somebody puts it, they have to ring the bell to wake it up, wash it, place it in its place and then pray to it. There prayers are answered. Even Buhdhist has his prayers answered just as well. For many decades China;s official policy is that there is no God. This was also the case with USSR through the cold war. These two plus pagan India, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, etc were and still remain part of the first 'world'.

In africa, the animists cry to their gods and they often get what the asked.

Allah says in Surah Maryam [this surah is enough to get you thinking] that He allows satan [evil one] to control the disbeliever for his/her disbelief in Allah The Almighty. You do know that the ultimate failure is the one whose deed is rendered worthless on the day of great meeting? You can nor make up your own religion. When you follow falsehood, is as good as making up your own religion.

How does a man dies for your sins, when he has not committed it? How do you become sinful for a sin which your forebearers committed, even though they have been forgiven of that very sin?

My dear sister, these are brainfoood[s]. The good result is that it nourishes the soul. May God guide us all. Amin.

This ranks right up there with the single best posts ever on Nairaland. Salaam, Sweetnecta.
Nice to see some leaving the enclave of the Islam section to express their educated view.

Your guy sounds awesome, Shy-One. 

From what I've read, I'm sure you have no need for "good luck" wishes, o jare.  That's another new (Yoruba) phrase you'll hear a lot when you go to Naija. 

Regardless, BEST WISHES!

Another one of my favourite things.

The sounds of Tunde Nightingale:

[flash=400,280]http://www.youtube.com//v/jtsgHxGFXp8[/flash]

[flash=400,280]http://www.youtube.com//v/vnFFBhzQigc[/flash]

[flash=400,280]http://www.youtube.com//v/zYNSf4tCiVM[/flash]

Isn't he did the one who did a song that goes:
"If your mother and your wife were drowning, tell me which one you will be saving. . ."?
I can never forget that one.

Yeah, right!

Where's naijababe when you need her? A matchmaker par excellence. She'll take your stats and hook you up in a jiffy. But, I'll tell her not to. The enemy of her friend is her enemy.

Where are the normal people anymore?

Seriously, fuggetaboutit dude, you're probably too good for her anyway. 

Where is the green smiley for: 

seal777:
It happened to me yrs back.
She slapped me yl in my room cos[b] i ask she had done any abortion b4[/b] we met.

  What a sweet girl that was.  You're lucky she didn't set you on fire. 

I am intrigued by the:

I NEVER REPLIED NEITHER DO I SAY A WORD BT I DID WAT I HAD IN MIND,

PhysicsMHD:
https://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/22175_1292930718836_1097320794_30940572_5272666_n.jpg

Physics in love.  I like it. 

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[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=590933.msg8044849#msg8044849 date=1301861427]^^ good MLK videos,[/quote]The video was an afterthought.  I found the speech and it was whamo!  BTW, someone transcribed that, same as I do for SAB.  Labour of love.  I thank them for their service.  And it's actually an easy speech to get through, if you go one paragraph at a time and don't think about the length of it.  I really enjoyed it.  I could do a whole thread on it.  But I won't. 

. . .that's my ancestor right there

You're just teasing fstranger with some random and unproven bio bits now.  How dare you? 

Enjoy this y'all, the first 6 minutes that is, E ku isinmi opin ose

http://www.youtube.com//v/vZ0LF2CABe0

And if I decide to enjoy after* the 6th minute nko?   

*Yeah, I didn't. lol

Aries 3/21-4/19

The ARIES Man

He said, "I go my ways

And when I find a mountain-nil

I set it in a blaze , "

"So either way

I'll get into the garden,

and I don't care what happens."

That creature over there making a phone call-is it an electrically charged dynamo?
Is it a flaming torch? is it a bird, an explosion-or is it Superman? Well, practically.
It's an Aries male, which is pretty close. Let's hope you know what you're looking
for. Should it be excitement, an Aries man will provide it by the bushel, with
seldom a dull moment to blur the sparkle. But if you're looking for the security and 
contentment of a soothing love, you're in the wrong telephone booth.

See full article here:
http://astrology-mrugank..com/2008/01/aries-man.html



The ARIES Child

"All I know is something comes at me , Like a Jack-in-lhe-box And I go up like a
Sky Rocket"

While Papa is passing out the cigars, the crimson-faced little Aries baby will yell for
attention in the bassinet. How dare you ignore him and talk to the nurse? Who's the
boss around here anyway?

You won't any more than get him in the taxi on the way home before that question
will be emphatically answered. Your Mars infant is the boss. Do you have any
doubts? They'll fade away when he's old enough to sit in the high chair and bang his
spoon on the tray if you leave him alone too long. He'll never tease you or be subtle
about his preferred diet. There's not a subtle bone in his strong, active, broad-
shouldered little body. The Aries tot will spit out his vegetables as if they were shot
from a cannon, and rub the cereal bowl on his tiny, bald head to make it quite clear
that this is definitely not the food baby likes. The girls will be as direct in their
actions as the boys. Maybe more so, though you hardly expect such fierce
determination from a soft, little miss. Did I say soft? April's metal is iron, and
April's stone is the diamond, the hardest substance known to man.

See full article here:
http://astrology-mrugank..com/2008/01/aries-child.html



The ARIES Woman

"But aren't you going to run and help her?"

Alice asked, 

"No use, no use!" said the King. "She runs so fearfully quick

you might as well try to catch a BandersnatchT*

So you're in love with an Aries girl. I don't know whether to congratulate you or
sympathize with you.

When Byron wrote that "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; 'tis woman's
whole existence," he forgot about j& the Aries woman. She may think love is her
whole existence, but she's too vitally absorbed in the world around her, not to
mention in herself, for it to be the beginning and end of her life. She can get along
without a man easier than any female you'll ever meet.

Of course, getting along without a man is not the same thing as getting along
without romance. She'll always need that hero of her dreams to yearn for in her
heart. He may be long ago and faraway-or hiding just out of sight and touch,
somewhere in tomorrow's mists-but she'll think about him in an April rain. He'll
haunt her when the first snow falls, when she hears a certain song or sees lightning
flash. However, while she's yearning, if there's no male around in actual physical
presence, she won't miss him terribly. Anything he could do, she can do better-she
thinks.

See full article here:
http://astrology-mrugank..com/2008/01/aries-woman.html

OAM4J:
^^^ go away jor, am sure u fell for it too. Wanted everybody that clicks on it think I was recommending him/her for a ban 

I did, at first, and almost replied to ask why why why?  But, I figured out something was up, as someone else said.  Of course, I spent a good 2 minutes wondering what I could possibly have done to merit banning.  Then I shook it off.    Not me. Not Isale,  No way!  Someone must have had their wires crossed.  If I'm gonna get banned, I want to deserve it real good (cos I wont be back).    That's the day I will call out every fool on here. lol. And I'll throw in a good verbal lashing at Seun too, whether or not he deserves it. 

Watched a CBS-TV short feature on the last days of MLK and the convict who killed him.

King's last speech is always compelling, no matter how many times I hear it.

[flash=580,500]http://www.youtube.com//v/o0FiCxZKuv8[/flash]

Well, I looked for it, and realised there is a whole lot more to it.  I have never really heard or read the entire speech before.  Here it is:

Martin Luther King, Jr

"I've Been to the Mountaintop"

delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about. It's always good to have your closest friend and associate to say something good about you. And Ralph Abernathy is the best friend that I have in the world. I'm delighted to see each of you here tonight in spite of a storm warning. You reveal that you are determined to go on anyhow.

Something is happening in Memphis; something is happening in our world. And you know, if I were standing at the beginning of time, with the possibility of taking a kind of general and panoramic view of the whole of human history up to now, and the Almighty said to me, "Martin Luther King, which age would you like to live in?" I would take my mental flight by Egypt and I would watch God's children in their magnificent trek from the dark dungeons of Egypt through, or rather across the Red Sea, through the wilderness on toward the promised land. And in spite of its magnificence, I wouldn't stop there.

I would move on by Greece and take my mind to Mount Olympus. And I would see Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Euripides and Aristophanes assembled around the Parthenon. And I would watch them around the Parthenon as they discussed the great and eternal issues of reality. But I wouldn't stop there.

I would go on, even to the great heyday of the Roman Empire. And I would see developments around there, through various emperors and leaders. But I wouldn't stop there.

I would even come up to the day of the Renaissance, and get a quick picture of all that the Renaissance did for the cultural and aesthetic life of man. But I wouldn't stop there.

I would even go by the way that the man for whom I am named had his habitat. And I would watch Martin Luther as he tacked his ninety-five theses on the door at the church of Wittenberg. But I wouldn't stop there.

I would come on up even to 1863, and watch a vacillating President by the name of Abraham Lincoln finally come to the conclusion that he had to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. But I wouldn't stop there.

I would even come up to the early thirties, and see a man grappling with the problems of the bankruptcy of his nation. And come with an eloquent cry that we have nothing to fear but "fear itself." But I wouldn't stop there.

Strangely enough, I would turn to the Almighty, and say, "If you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the 20th century, I will be happy."

Now that's a strange statement to make, because the world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around. That's a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century in a way that men, in some strange way, are responding.

Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee -- the cry is always the same: "We want to be free."

And another reason that I'm happy to live in this period is that we have been forced to a point where we are going to have to grapple with the problems that men have been trying to grapple with through history, but the demands didn't force them to do it. Survival demands that we grapple with them. Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

And also in the human rights revolution, if something isn't done, and done in a hurry, to bring the colored peoples of the world out of their long years of poverty, their long years of hurt and neglect, the whole world is doomed. Now, I'm just happy that God has allowed me to live in this period to see what is unfolding. And I'm happy that He's allowed me to be in Memphis.

I can remember -- I can remember when Negroes were just going around as Ralph has said, so often, scratching where they didn't itch, and laughing when they were not tickled. But that day is all over. We mean business now, and we are determined to gain our rightful place in God's world.

And that's all this whole thing is about. We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying -- We are saying that we are God's children. And that we are God's children, we don't have to live like we are forced to live.

Now, what does all of this mean in this great period of history? It means that we've got to stay together. We've got to stay together and maintain unity. You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite, favorite formula for doing it. What was that? He kept the slaves fighting among themselves. But whenever the slaves get together, something happens in Pharaoh's court, and he cannot hold the slaves in slavery. When the slaves get together, that's the beginning of getting out of slavery. Now let us maintain unity.

Secondly, let us keep the issues where they are. The issue is injustice. The issue is the refusal of Memphis to be fair and honest in its dealings with its public servants, who happen to be sanitation workers. Now, we've got to keep attention on that. That's always the problem with a little violence. You know what happened the other day, and the press dealt only with the window-breaking. I read the articles. They very seldom got around to mentioning the fact that one thousand, three hundred sanitation workers are on strike, and that Memphis is not being fair to them, and that Mayor Loeb is in dire need of a doctor. They didn't get around to that.

Now we're going to march again, and we've got to march again, in order to put the issue where it is supposed to be -- and force everybody to see that there are thirteen hundred of God's children here suffering, sometimes going hungry, going through dark and dreary nights wondering how this thing is going to come out. That's the issue. And we've got to say to the nation: We know how it's coming out. For when people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do. I've seen them so often. I remember in Birmingham, Alabama, when we were in that majestic struggle there, we would move out of the 16th Street Baptist Church day after day; by the hundreds we would move out. And Bull Connor would tell them to send the dogs forth, and they did come; but we just went before the dogs singing, "Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around."

Bull Connor next would say, "Turn the fire hoses on." And as I said to you the other night, Bull Connor didn't know history. He knew a kind of physics that somehow didn't relate to the transphysics that we knew about. And that was the fact that there was a certain kind of fire that no water could put out. And we went before the fire hoses; we had known water. If we were Baptist or some other denominations, we had been immersed. If we were Methodist, and some others, we had been sprinkled, but we knew water. That couldn't stop us.

And we just went on before the dogs and we would look at them; and we'd go on before the water hoses and we would look at it, and we'd just go on singing "Over my head I see freedom in the air." And then we would be thrown in the paddy wagons, and sometimes we were stacked in there like sardines in a can. And they would throw us in, and old Bull would say, "Take 'em off," and they did; and we would just go in the paddy wagon singing, "We Shall Overcome." And every now and then we'd get in jail, and we'd see the jailers looking through the windows being moved by our prayers, and being moved by our words and our songs. And there was a power there which Bull Connor couldn't adjust to; and so we ended up transforming Bull into a steer, and we won our struggle in Birmingham. Now we've got to go on in Memphis just like that. I call upon you to be with us when we go out Monday.

Now about injunctions: We have an injunction and we're going into court tomorrow morning to fight this illegal, unconstitutional injunction. All we say to America is, "Be true to what you said on paper." If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. Maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they hadn't committed themselves to that over there. But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right. And so just as I say, we aren't going to let dogs or water hoses turn us around, we aren't going to let any injunction turn us around. We are going on.

We need all of you. And you know what's beautiful to me is to see all of these ministers of the Gospel. It's a marvelous picture. Who is it that is supposed to articulate the longings and aspirations of the people more than the preacher? Somehow the preacher must have a kind of fire shut up in his bones. And whenever injustice is around he tell it. Somehow the preacher must be an Amos, and saith, "When God speaks who can but prophesy?" Again with Amos, "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream." Somehow the preacher must say with Jesus, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me," and he's anointed me to deal with the problems of the poor."

And I want to commend the preachers, under the leadership of these noble men: James Lawson, one who has been in this struggle for many years; he's been to jail for struggling; he's been kicked out of Vanderbilt University for this struggle, but he's still going on, fighting for the rights of his people. Reverend Ralph Jackson, Billy Kiles; I could just go right on down the list, but time will not permit. But I want to thank all of them. And I want you to thank them, because so often, preachers aren't concerned about anything but themselves. And I'm always happy to see a relevant ministry.

It's all right to talk about "long white robes over yonder," in all of its symbolism. But ultimately people want some suits and dresses and shoes to wear down here! It's all right to talk about "streets flowing with milk and honey," but God has commanded us to be concerned about the slums down here, and his children who can't eat three square meals a day. It's all right to talk about the new Jerusalem, but one day, God's preacher must talk about the new New York, the new Atlanta, the new Philadelphia, the new Los Angeles, the new Memphis, Tennessee. This is what we have to do.

Now the other thing we'll have to do is this: Always anchor our external direct action with the power of economic withdrawal. Now, we are poor people. Individually, we are poor when you compare us with white society in America. We are poor. Never stop and forget that collectively -- that means all of us together -- collectively we are richer than all the nations in the world, with the exception of nine. Did you ever think about that? After you leave the United States, Soviet Russia, Great Britain, West Germany, France, and I could name the others, the American Negro collectively is richer than most nations of the world. We have an annual income of more than thirty billion dollars a year, which is more than all of the exports of the United States, and more than the national budget of Canada. Did you know that? That's power right there, if we know how to pool it.

We don't have to argue with anybody. We don't have to curse and go around acting bad with our words. We don't need any bricks and bottles. We don't need any Molotov cocktails. We just need to go around to these stores, and to these massive industries in our country, and say, "God sent us by here, to say to you that you're not treating his children right. And we've come by here to ask you to make the first item on your agenda fair treatment, where God's children are concerned. Now, if you are not prepared to do that, we do have an agenda that we must follow. And our agenda calls for withdrawing economic support from you."

And so, as a result of this, we are asking you tonight, to go out and tell your neighbors not to buy Coca-Cola in Memphis. Go by and tell them not to buy Sealtest milk. Tell them not to buy -- what is the other bread? -- Wonder Bread. And what is the other bread company, Jesse? Tell them not to buy Hart's bread. As Jesse Jackson has said, up to now, only the garbage men have been feeling pain; now we must kind of redistribute the pain. We are choosing these companies because they haven't been fair in their hiring policies; and we are choosing them because they can begin the process of saying they are going to support the needs and the rights of these men who are on strike. And then they can move on town -- downtown and tell Mayor Loeb to do what is right.

But not only that, we've got to strengthen black institutions. I call upon you to take your money out of the banks downtown and deposit your money in Tri-State Bank. We want a "bank-in" movement in Memphis. Go by the savings and loan association. I'm not asking you something that we don't do ourselves at SCLC. Judge Hooks and others will tell you that we have an account here in the savings and loan association from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. We are telling you to follow what we are doing. Put your money there. You have six or seven black insurance companies here in the city of Memphis. Take out your insurance there. We want to have an "insurance-in."

Now these are some practical things that we can do. We begin the process of building a greater economic base. And at the same time, we are putting pressure where it really hurts. I ask you to follow through here.

Now, let me say as I move to my conclusion that we've got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end. Nothing would be more tragic than to stop at this point in Memphis. We've got to see it through. And when we have our march, you need to be there. If it means leaving work, if it means leaving school -- be there. Be concerned about your brother. You may not be on strike. But either we go up together, or we go down together.

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness. One day a man came to Jesus, and he wanted to raise some questions about some vital matters of life. At points he wanted to trick Jesus, and show him that he knew a little more than Jesus knew and throw him off base,

Now that question could have easily ended up in a philosophical and theological debate. But Jesus immediately pulled that question from mid-air, and placed it on a dangerous curve between Jerusalem and Jericho. And he talked about a certain man, who fell among thieves. You remember that a Levite and a priest passed by on the other side. They didn't stop to help him. And finally a man of another race came by. He got down from his beast, decided not to be compassionate by proxy. But he got down with him, administered first aid, and helped the man in need. Jesus ended up saying, this was the good man, this was the great man, because he had the capacity to project the "I" into the "thou," and to be concerned about his brother.

Now you know, we use our imagination a great deal to try to determine why the priest and the Levite didn't stop. At times we say they were busy going to a church meeting, an ecclesiastical gathering, and they had to get on down to Jerusalem so they wouldn't be late for their meeting. At other times we would speculate that there was a religious law that "One who was engaged in religious ceremonials was not to touch a human body twenty-four hours before the ceremony." And every now and then we begin to wonder whether maybe they were not going down to Jerusalem -- or down to Jericho, rather to organize a "Jericho Road Improvement Association." That's a possibility. Maybe they felt that it was better to deal with the problem from the causal root, rather than to get bogged down with an individual effect.

But I'm going to tell you what my imagination tells me. It's possible that those men were afraid. You see, the Jericho road is a dangerous road. I remember when Mrs. King and I were first in Jerusalem. We rented a car and drove from Jerusalem down to Jericho. And as soon as we got on that road, I said to my wife, "I can see why Jesus used this as the setting for his parable." It's a winding, meandering road. It's really conducive for ambushing. You start out in Jerusalem, which is about 1200 miles -- or rather 1200 feet above sea level. And by the time you get down to Jericho, fifteen or twenty minutes later, you're about 2200 feet below sea level. That's a dangerous road. In the days of Jesus it came to be known as the "Bloody Pass." And you know, it's possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the robbers were still around. Or it's possible that they felt that the man on the ground was merely faking. And he was acting like he had been robbed and hurt, in order to seize them over there, lure them there for quick and easy seizure. And so the first question that the priest asked -- the first question that the Levite asked was, "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But then the Good Samaritan came by. And he reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"

That's the question before you tonight. Not, "If I stop to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to my job. Not, "If I stop to help the sanitation workers what will happen to all of the hours that I usually spend in my office every day and every week as a pastor?" The question is not, "If I stop to help this man in need, what will happen to me?" The question is, "If I do not stop to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to them?" That's the question.

Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation. And I want to thank God, once more, for allowing me to be here with you.

You know, several years ago, I was in New York City autographing the first book that I had written. And while sitting there autographing books, a demented black woman came up. The only question I heard from her was, "Are you Martin Luther King?" And I was looking down writing, and I said, "Yes." And the next minute I felt something beating on my chest. Before I knew it I had been stabbed by this demented woman. I was rushed to Harlem Hospital. It was a dark Saturday afternoon. And that blade had gone through, and the X-rays revealed that the tip of the blade was on the edge of my aorta, the main artery. And once that's punctured, your drowned in your own blood -- that's the end of you.

It came out in the New York Times the next morning, that if I had merely sneezed, I would have died. Well, about four days later, they allowed me, after the operation, after my chest had been opened, and the blade had been taken out, to move around in the wheel chair in the hospital. They allowed me to read some of the mail that came in, and from all over the states and the world, kind letters came in. I read a few, but one of them I will never forget. I had received one from the President and the Vice-President. I've forgotten what those telegrams said. I'd received a visit and a letter from the Governor of New York, but I've forgotten what that letter said. But there was another letter that came from a little girl, a young girl who was a student at the White Plains High School. And I looked at that letter, and I'll never forget it. It said simply,

    Dear Dr. King,

    I am a ninth-grade student at the White Plains High School."

And she said,

    While it should not matter, I would like to mention that I'm a white girl. I read in the paper of your misfortune, and of your suffering. And I read that if you had sneezed, you would have died. And I'm simply writing you to say that I'm so happy that you didn't sneeze.

And I want to say tonight -- I want to say tonight that I too am happy that I didn't sneeze. Because if I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here in 1960, when students all over the South started sitting-in at lunch counters. And I knew that as they were sitting in, they were really standing up for the best in the American dream, and taking the whole nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here in 1961, when we decided to take a ride for freedom and ended segregation in inter-state travel.

If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here in 1962, when Negroes in Albany, Georgia, decided to straighten their backs up. And whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent.

If I had sneezed -- If I had sneezed I wouldn't have been here in 1963, when the black people of Birmingham, Alabama, aroused the conscience of this nation, and brought into being the Civil Rights Bill.

If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have had a chance later that year, in August, to try to tell America about a dream that I had had.

If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been down in Selma, Alabama, to see the great Movement there.

If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been in Memphis to see a community rally around those brothers and sisters who are suffering.

I'm so happy that I didn't sneeze.

And they were telling me --. Now, it doesn't matter, now. It really doesn't matter what happens now. I left Atlanta this morning, and as we got started on the plane, there were six of us. The pilot said over the public address system, "We are sorry for the delay, but we have Dr. Martin Luther King on the plane. And to be sure that all of the bags were checked, and to be sure that nothing would be wrong with on the plane, we had to check out everything carefully. And we've had the plane protected and guarded all night."

And then I got into Memphis. And some began to say the threats, or talk about the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers?

Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop.

And I don't mind.

Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!

And so I'm happy, tonight.

I'm not worried about anything.

I'm not fearing any man!

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!!


http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkivebeentothemountaintop.htm


I also found some audio/video but they're disjointed. If you can find a seamless set, please post.

[flash=480,390]http://www.youtube.com//v/C2EnnclLMX4[/flash]
[flash=200,200]http://www.youtube.com//v/ySGDMdQaDA0&feature=watch_response[/flash]

[flash=480,390]http://www.youtube.com//v/fZFebxQxLoc&NR=1[/flash]

sley4life:
I dont rily understand the 1st hightlighted. How do u approach a lady for u to be convinced that is the right approach?i dont know when the approach seems right even inside the church they still turn u down.Even your fellow worker towns u down.I wonder because they still turn u down when u approach them with a bible on your hand.
How do a lady u ar approaching know your age?Is age written on the forehead?

   
   
   
  

J12:
Do guys really have to ask girls out? Why isn't it the other way round? The dating game(or whatever) is not fair to guys. I see alot girls who like me but they cant come up to me and simply say 'hey' or 'hi'. All they do is smile at you and expect you walk up to them and strike a conversation. Thats bullshite!

lol.  If it makes you feel better, all over the world a million guys each day have to work up the nerve to approach a female not knowing what reception awaits them.  And the sun sets and the sun rises. 

Seun:
Continuity, human rights, and privatization. That's GEJ. That doesn't mean I'll vote for PDP at state level.

IT's about to hit the fan! Get the children out of the room, please.

I'll be doggone!   I actually agree with the wrong person in this discourse.  

Maybe it's the word "sacrifice."  Maybe the question posed is flawed.  

Since the question is not, "who shows more attention?" or "who is the primary caregiver?" or "who cleans more?" or "who takes more time from work," my answer would have to be that. . . In a typical home, the man is making more personal sacrifice to keep the family unit together.

Don't stone me!  :::scared smiley:::