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Rare Martin Luther King Jr. Speech: "But If Not"

Posted September 23rd, 2008 by Corey deVos in Inspirations

Yesterday Boing Boing posted about a rare Martin Luther King Jr. speech about civil disobedience, titled "But If Not."

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"I say to you, this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren’t fit to live.

You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be, and one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls upon you to stand for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid.

You refuse to do it because you want to live longer. You’re afraid that you will lose your job, or you are afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity, or you’re afraid that somebody will stab or shoot or bomb your house. So you refuse to take a stand.

Well, you may go on and live until you are ninety, but you are just as dead at 38 as you would be at ninety.

And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit.

You died when you refused to stand up for right.

You died when you refused to stand up for truth.

You died when you refused to stand up for justice.”

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Corey, Keep 'Em Coming...

Posted September 23rd, 2008 by David Sunfellow

Corey, keep 'em coming! You're on a roll. Thanks for sharing this. I hadn't heard this before and this is one of those jewels that all of us should hear, read, ponder, live every day of our lives...


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Love and Nonviolent Resistance

Posted September 23rd, 2008 by David Marshall

I think that is awesome, Corey. It reminds me of the guru and pandit discussions in which Ken and Andrew talk about "authentic self." Maybe we could say that this is a person who has decided to live from his soul or even his causal body rather than the gross. Of course it's a level thing but on a particular line. Ken once talked about an ego-deeper psychic line, I believe, and that's what I'm getting at when I mention the three bodies. Or perhaps we're just talking about Indigo evolutionary commitment.

Not long ago I found a really cool video of MLK Jr. defending love and non-violent resistence. Here it is.