Below is a great amalgation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s most famous speeches put to a beat by leveledunderground. Today would be Dr. King's 83rd birthday; and with the current climate of elections, civil unrest, income disparity and terrorism I think it is important to remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's legacy of non violent resistance to tyranny and oppression as taught to him by Bayard Rustin (shown in the picture at the .18 mark standing to the right behind Dr. King), who himself learned of civil disobedience thru his work in India with Gandhi's Satyagraha movement for Indian independence. As Paul David Hewson once said, "For Dr. Martin Luther King sing:"
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