(Yes, sir), How long? How long will justice be crucified, (Speak) and truth bear it?" O, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! (Yes, sir), Yes, we are on the move and no wave of racism can stop us. (Yes, sir) We are on the move now. But if we will go on with the faith that nonviolence and its power can transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows, we will be able to change all of these conditions. Some of our faces are burned from the outpourings of the sweltering sun. (Yes, sir) The bombing of our homes will not dissuade us. (Yes, sir) Just ten years ago, in this very city, a new philosophy was born of the Negro struggle. Somebody’s asking, "When will the radiant star of hope be plunged against the nocturnal bosom of this lonely night, (Speak, speak, speak) plucked from weary souls with chains of fear and the manacles of death? (Yes, sir. My dear and abiding friends, Ralph Abernathy, and to all of the distinguished Americans seated here on the rostrum, my friends and co-workers of the state of Alabama, and to all of the freedom-loving people who have assembled here this afternoon from all over our nation and from all over the world: Last Sunday, more than eight thousand of us started on a mighty walk from Selma, Alabama. I must admit to you that there are still some difficult days ahead. Please contact Intellectual Properties Management (IPM), the exclusive licensor of the Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. at licensing@i-p-m.com or 404 526-8968. We have walked on meandering highways and rested our bodies on rocky byways. Somebody’s asking, "When will wounded justice, lying prostrate on the streets of Selma and Birmingham and communities all over the South, be lifted from this dust of shame to reign supreme among the children of men?" And from the wells of this democratic spirit, the nation finally forced Congress (Well) to write legislation (Yes, sir) in the hope that it would eradicate the stain of Birmingham. Added the two-letter short name for every state - 2015/10/25. We are still in for a season of suffering in many of the black belt counties of Alabama, many areas of Mississippi, many areas of Louisiana. (Yes, sir) We are moving to the land of freedom. (Yes, sir) The beating and killing of our clergymen and young people will not divert us. (Yes, sir) We are on the move now. The Story of God Bible Commentary series will cover the Old and New Testaments across 43 volumes over the next 10 years. (Yes, sir) Let us march on poverty (Let us march) until wrinkled stomachs in Mississippi are filled, (That's right) and the idle industries of Appalachia are realized and revitalized, and broken lives in sweltering ghettos are mended and remolded. (Go ahead. Now it is not an accident that one of the great marches of American history should terminate in Montgomery, Alabama. (Yes, sir), I come to say to you this afternoon, however difficult the moment, (Yes, sir) however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, (No sir) because "truth crushed to earth will rise again." The confrontation of good and evil compressed in the tiny community of Selma (Speak, speak) generated the massive power (Yes, sir. We’ve come a long way since that travesty of justice was perpetrated upon the American mind. The Sermon on the Mount is the moral portrait of Jesus’ own people. You should also read the Bible often, because Christians believe it is God’s word. We are on the move now. And we can answer with creative nonviolence the call to higher ground to which the new directions of our struggle summons us. We have been drenched by the rains. That crippled and eventually destroyed the Populist Movement of the nineteenth century. They segregated southern money from the poor whites; they segregated southern mores from the rich whites; (Yes, sir) they segregated southern churches from Christianity (Yes, sir); they segregated southern minds from honest thinking; (Yes, sir) and they segregated the Negro from everything. (Yes, sir) And that did it. (Yes, sir. I must admit to you that there are still jail cells waiting for us, and dark and difficult moments. But we must keep going. Racial segregation as a way of life did not come about as a natural result of hatred between the races immediately after the Civil War. All right) And in a real sense this afternoon, we can say that our feet are tired, (Yes, sir) but our souls are rested. After Montgomery’s, heroic confrontations loomed up in Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, and elsewhere. But today as I stand before you and think back over that great march, I can say, as Sister Pollard said—a seventy-year-old Negro woman who lived in this community during the bus boycott—and one day, she was asked while walking if she didn’t want to ride. (Yes), I know you are asking today, "How long will it take?" How long) because "you shall reap what you sow." Colombia prosecutors move to drop case against ex-president. Talk) but all the world today knows that we are here and we are standing before the forces of power in the state of Alabama saying, "We ain’t goin’ let nobody turn us around." (Yes, sir) The pattern of their feet as they walked through Jim Crow barriers in the great stride toward freedom is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, (Yes, sir) and the world rocks beneath their tread. (Yes, sir) The bombing of our homes will not dissuade us. (Yes, sir. (Yes, sir. (Speak, Doctor). Discipling is a ministry of how, but it should be even more so a ministry of why. 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