Name: 馬丁-路德-金《我曾到過山頂 (Martin Luther King Jr I've Been to the Mountaintop)
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As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought

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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

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

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.

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.

I would even go by the way that the man for whom I'm named had his habitat, and I would

watch Martin Luther as he tacks his ninety-five theses on the door at the church of Wittenberg.

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.

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

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 twentieth 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.

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

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 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

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.

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 saying, we are saying that we are God's children.

And if we are God's children, we don't have to live like we are forced to live.

Now what does all 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,

He kept the slaves fighting among themselves.

But whenever the slaves get together, something happens in Pharaoh's court, and he cannot

When the slaves get together, that's the beginning of getting out of slavery.

Secondly, let us keep the issues where they are.

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.

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.

They very seldom got around to mentioning the fact that 1,300 sanitation workers are

on strike, and that Memphis is not being fair to them, and that Mayor Loeb is in dire need

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

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