Bernice A. King - "I Have a Dream" Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Service (January 15, 1995)

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	(dramatic organ music)	0:00
-	Good evening.	1:51
Congregation	Good evening.	1:52
-	A call to remembrance.	1:54
	Lest we forget	1:57
	the Civil Rights Movement, the mission,	1:59
	lest we forget	2:04
	the appeal for non-violence, the method,	2:06
	lest we forget	2:10
	the perpetual challenge to embrace	2:13
	freedom, justice, and equality	2:15
	for the whole of humanity, the message,	2:18
	and lest we forget	2:23
	Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the man.	2:25
	Let us always remember,	2:30
	lest we forget.	2:33
-	And let us pray.	2:46
	Almighty and all-wise God,	2:57
	our heavenly Father,	3:00
	we give you thanks for all your gifts	3:03
	so freely bestowed on us.	3:06
	We thank you that we're able to gather	3:10
	with Duke students in this lovely place	3:14
	on the birthday of Dr. King, your servant.	3:18
	We thank you for the chance to listen, to remember,	3:22
	to examine, and to weigh,	3:27
	to dream, to sing, to pray.	3:31
	O Father, bless Reverend Bernice King tonight	3:37
	that she may speak to the weary	3:41
	a word that will rouse them.	3:44
	O Lord, open our ears	3:47
	that we may hear.	3:50
	Warm the cold heart.	3:53
	Melt the hard heart	3:56
	that we may bring nonviolent hearts and nonviolent ways	4:00
	to the people with whom we deal.	4:05
	Let thy Holy Spirit stir in us tonight, O Jesus,	4:10
	to bring us alive to the dream	4:15
	and to the power of the gospel	4:18
	that we, when we leave this place,	4:21
	we may be more free from fear,	4:25
	more ready to look up and out	4:29
	and into our sister's eyes and our brother's face	4:34
	simply with hope.	4:38
	This, O Father, is our prayer.	4:44
	For thy name and for thy sake, let us say Amen.	4:46
Congregation	Amen.	4:51
	(elegant piano music)	5:27
	(vibrant piano music)	6:44
	♪ Holy ♪	7:04
	♪ Holy ♪	7:09
	♪ Lord God ♪	7:14
	♪ Almighty ♪	7:19
	♪ Holy ♪	7:24
	♪ Holy ♪	7:29
	♪ Lord God ♪	7:34
	♪ Almighty ♪	7:39
	♪ Heaven and earth are ♪	7:44
	♪ Full of thy glory ♪	7:49
	♪ All heaven and earth are ♪	7:53
	♪ Full of thy glory ♪	7:59
	♪ Lord, holy ♪	8:03
	♪ And righteous is your name ♪	8:06
	♪ Omnipotent ♪	8:10
	♪ Glorious ♪	8:12
	♪ Holy is ♪	8:15
	♪ Your name ♪	8:18
	♪ Holy ♪	8:23
	♪ Holy ♪	8:28
	♪ Lord God ♪	8:33
	♪ Almighty ♪	8:38
	♪ Holy ♪	8:43
	♪ Holy ♪	8:47
	♪ Lord God ♪	8:52
	♪ Almighty ♪	8:56
	♪ Heaven and earth are ♪	9:01
	♪ Full of thy glory ♪	9:06
	♪ All heaven and earth are ♪	9:10
	♪ Full of thy glory ♪	9:16
	♪ Lord, holy ♪	9:20
	♪ And righteous is your name ♪	9:23
	♪ Omnipotent ♪	9:27
	♪ Glorious ♪	9:29
	♪ Holy is ♪	9:32
	♪ Your name ♪	9:35
	♪ Your name ♪	9:36
	♪ Your name ♪
	♪ Worthy is the ♪	9:40
	♪ Lamb of God ♪	9:45
	♪ Worthy is the ♪	9:50
	♪ Lamb of God ♪	9:55
	♪ You are worthy ♪	9:58
	♪ Of glory ♪	10:02
	♪ And honor ♪	10:04
	♪ And power ♪	10:06
	♪ You are worthy ♪	10:08
	♪ Of glory ♪	10:11
	♪ And honor ♪	10:14
	♪ And power ♪	10:16
	♪ Heaven and earth are ♪	10:19
	♪ Full of thy glory ♪	10:23
	♪ Lord, holy ♪	10:27
	♪ And righteous is your name ♪	10:30
	♪ Omnipotent ♪	10:34
	♪ Glorious ♪	10:36
	♪ Holy is ♪	10:39
	♪ Your name ♪	10:42
	♪ We praise you ♪
	♪ We praise you ♪	10:44
	♪ We praise you ♪	10:47
	♪ We praise you ♪	10:49
	♪ Lord, we praise you ♪	10:50
	♪ Lord, we praise you ♪	10:53
	♪ Lord, we praise you ♪	10:55
	(congregation applauding)	10:58
	(vibrant piano music)	11:07
	(pensive piano music)	13:14
	♪ Amen ♪	13:24
	♪ Amen ♪	13:30
	♪ Master, hear your servant's prayer ♪	13:35
	♪ Once again ♪	13:40
	(conductor claps)	13:44
	♪ I'll be honest ♪	13:45
	♪ I'll be fair ♪	13:48
	♪ Yes, I'll own you anywhere ♪	13:50
	♪ This is your servant's prayer ♪	13:55
	♪ Amen ♪	13:59
	♪ Amen ♪	14:05
	♪ Amen ♪	14:10
	♪ Master, hear your servant's prayer ♪	14:14
	♪ Once again ♪	14:19
	(conductor claps)	14:23
	♪ I'll be honest ♪	14:24
	♪ I'll be fair ♪	14:26
	♪ Yes, I'll own you anywhere ♪	14:28
	♪ This is your servant's prayer ♪	14:33
	♪ Amen ♪	14:38
	♪ Oooooooh ♪	14:43
	♪ Oooooooh ♪	14:48
	♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪	14:52
	♪ Oooooooh ♪	14:57
	(conductor claps)	15:01
	♪ Ahhhhh ♪	15:02
	♪ Ahhhhh ♪	15:04
	♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪	15:06
	♪ Oooooooh ♪	15:10
	♪ Oooh ♪	15:15
	♪ Amen ♪	15:20
	♪ Amen ♪	15:25
	♪ Master, hear your servant's prayer ♪	15:29
	♪ Once again ♪	15:34
	(conductor claps)	15:38
	♪ I'll be honest ♪	15:39
	♪ I'll be fair ♪	15:41
	♪ Yes, I'll own you anywhere ♪	15:43
	♪ This is your ♪	15:47
	♪ Servant's prayer ♪	15:53
	♪ Amen ♪	15:59
	(congregation applauding)	16:12
-	Good evening.	17:20
Congregation	Good evening.	17:21
-	It has been exactly one year since I stood before you	17:23
	to provide thoughts on the purpose of this	17:26
	and similar celebrations which are being held this weekend	17:28
	to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King	17:32
	and to pause to reflect on his legacy to us.	17:35
	When Michael called me	17:39
	to ask me to provide my thoughts last year,	17:40
	I said yes.	17:44
	I can't say no to Michael,	17:46
	but inwardly I anguished last year	17:48
	at the enormity of this task.	17:51
	Last year, you see, was a moment	17:54
	of incredible catharsis for me	17:56
	as I labored to share thoughts	17:58
	about the meaning of the King celebrations	18:00
	that had been buried, ignored, and otherwise unavailable	18:03
	for functional use in my day-to-day life.	18:06
	I wasn't too sure then	18:10
	if I had accomplished what Michael asked me when I finished.	18:11
	I was overwhelmed by the power of that moment	18:15
	and the closeness that I felt	18:18
	with everyone in the audience as I spoke.	18:20
	And when it was over, I breathed a sigh of relief	18:23
	that I had paid my debt to Michael, Dr. King, Duke,	18:27
	my sons, and everyone else.	18:31
	That was until the phone rang and there was Michael again.	18:33
	My task, you see, is to distill in a few words	18:38
	the purpose of this	18:41
	and similar celebrations or commemorations	18:42
	to make Dr. King's lifework, his dream,	18:46
	relevant to the times that we face now in 1995.	18:49
	Many of those who are assembled here tonight	18:54
	were not even born	18:56
	when Dr. King delivered his Dream speech	18:58
	at the Lincoln Memorial	19:00
	and have had to depend	19:02
	on their parental and family recollections	19:04
	if they are lucky	19:07
	and the media if they are unlucky	19:08
	to tell them who this important man was	19:11
	at a critical time	19:14
	in the history of civil rights in our country.	19:15
	If they are lucky, they were also told	19:19
	of the other heroes and heroines,	19:21
	of Fannie Lou Hamer, of A. Philip Randolph,	19:23
	of Medgar Evers, of Thurgood Marshall,	19:27
	and of Rosa Parks, to name only a few.	19:30
	For, you see, our children and our youngest adults,	19:34
	those born after 1969,	19:37
	live in a different time,	19:40
	and perhaps Martin's dream is not as relevant, as primal,	19:41
	as urgent as it was for those of us who lived	19:46
	the day-to-day horrors of racism.	19:49
	Many of you are the children	19:53
	of first and second-generation middle-class families	19:55
	who have reaped the benefits of Martin Luther King's labor.	19:58
	Many of our children labor under the false assumption	20:02
	that integration has worked,	20:05
	that we have achieved that community of people	20:07
	who are judged by the content of their character	20:10
	rather than the color of their skin,	20:13
	that racism is indeed dead.	20:15
	Unfortunately, for far too few of us,	20:18
	the ascent into realms	20:21
	previously declared off limits to our parents	20:23
	has served to sharpen our ability to recognize	20:26
	the multitude of forms that institutional racism takes.	20:30
	Too few of us remember that our ability to live and work,	20:34
	things that Dr. King lived and died for,	20:38
	have not exonerated us of the debt to our communities	20:43
	that we owe for that privilege.	20:46
	More times than not, we have not learned	20:49
	to recognize the same demon of racism today,	20:51
	as it is cloaked in a different guise	20:55
	and therefore are unsuspecting, particularly vulnerable,	20:57
	and more importantly, unprepared to deal with it	21:01
	and to survive.	21:04
	So ironically, I've come tonight to try to make those ties	21:06
	that link our past, Dr. King and his dream,	21:09
	to us who remain and to those who are coming behind us	21:12
	so that we can be about Dr. King's unfinished business.	21:16
	I thought and thought about how to do this,	21:20
	how to make Dr. King's holiday	21:22
	relevant to the world in which we live,	21:24
	how to find one unifying thing	21:27
	that could dramatically drive home	21:29
	the urgency to make this tie to our past.	21:31
	One issue that's so uniquely and so frighteningly close	21:34
	strikes the necessary terror to get everybody's attention.	21:38
	Those of you who know me and listened to me last year	21:42
	and those who know me very well	21:46
	know that when I seem to be stumped,	21:48
	I can always depend on my children,	21:49
	whose innocent voices bring me front and center,	21:52
	and tonight is no different.	21:55
	As I read and thought	21:57
	and worried about what to say to you tonight,	21:58
	it was through the voices of my two sons	22:00
	that it all came together.	22:03
	Because it is the threat	22:05
	that our world poses to their potential	22:07
	that links Dr. King and his dream	22:10
	squarely to tonight's commemoration.	22:12
	So it is my children in the voice of their mother	22:15
	that you will hear tonight,	22:17
	not the pediatrician Dr. Armstrong.	22:19
	Because it is to them and the countless numbers	22:21
	of African American children especially	22:24
	that the voice of Dr. King and his legacy	22:27
	speak most poignantly.	22:29
	It is about the unfinished business of Dr. King's dreams.	22:31
	His vision of peace and attainment of equal rights for all	22:35
	seem further away now than ever,	22:39
	slipping away in the violence	22:41
	that is consuming our children,	22:43
	that has made this a season of blood and ashes.	22:45
	So much of Dr. King's life and work was devoted	22:49
	to deliver to our children	22:52
	the full benefit of those inalienable rights	22:55
	that were promised by the Constitution	22:58
	and the Bill of Rights	23:00
	so that their futures would be brighter than ours.	23:01
	The lives and legacy of African Americans	23:05
	have been progressive and valuable beyond measure	23:08
	simply because each generation has fashioned	23:12
	a way to resist the pernicious hold of racism in our lives.	23:16
	Each generation of Black children	23:21
	have exceeded their parents.	23:23
	My son's generation of Black children	23:25
	may be the first that may be destroyed	23:28
	before it can marshal its forces	23:31
	against the enemy facing them.	23:33
	The battle this time is bloodier.	23:35
	The lines are more deeply drawn.	23:37
	As the mother of Black sons,	23:40
	I am raising my children with trembling hands	23:41
	that clutch and lead,	23:44
	and tonight I speak to you about our children	23:46
	because there is no subject more necessary to confront,	23:48
	more imperative to imagine,	23:51
	more tied to the unfinished business of Dr. King's dream	23:53
	than the fate of our sons and daughters.	23:57
	Death, the specter of death,	24:01
	real and unexpected and cruel, fills our existence	24:03
	more than any time in our past as a nation.	24:06
	Death like some medieval plague is now with us,	24:09
	and if we love our sons and daughters and ourselves,	24:13
	we must speak its name,	24:16
	violence in all forms.	24:18
	Step up to it, challenge it,	24:20
	fight it collectively and one on one.	24:22
	It is the same violence that took Dr. King from us,	24:25
	the same forces that have come together to fuel a climate	24:28
	that is creating a new kind of Middle Passage	24:32
	for us as African Americans	24:35
	and people of conscience to navigate through.	24:37
	What will we look like?	24:40
	How will we sound once we are spewed forth	24:42
	from this terrible hold of this ship?	24:45
	We bury and mourn the children who are dead.	24:48
	What will we do to cherish and save the ones who live?	24:51
	Homicide is the leading cause of death	24:56
	among Black females and males,	24:58
	15 to 34 years of age.	25:02
	The probability of being a murder victim	25:05
	is less than 1 in 20 for an African American male	25:07
	compared to 1 in 200 for a white male.	25:10
	Interpersonal violence is a public health problem,	25:14
	and the impact of the more than 20,000 people who die	25:17
	and the 2.2 million people	25:22
	who suffer non-fatal injuries from interpersonal violence	25:24
	is staggering and bankrupting an almost,	25:27
	an already tenuous healthcare system.	25:30
	We could debate whether it is poverty or race	25:34
	that so intensifies patterns of morbidity and mortality,	25:37
	that so darkens the picture for violence,	25:41
	but at this point in time, suffice it to say	25:43
	that they do overlap and are real issues.	25:46
	We have seen the virtual disintegration	25:50
	of the very institutions	25:52
	that have held us together as a society,	25:53
	and for those of us who are Black, as a people.	25:56
	We see teenage pregnancy at an alarming rate	25:59
	and refuse to intervene for so-called moral grounds	26:02
	or because we don't want to step on anyone's rights,	26:06
	but out of the same mouths, we cut off funding	26:09
	that will give the children who are born	26:12
	a smidgen of a chance to survive.	26:14
	We see our nation beginning to think	26:16
	that affirmative action programs are unnecessary,	26:18
	that somehow the centuries	26:21
	of injustice, oppression, and inhumanity	26:22
	which have prevented the full realization	26:25
	of enormous potential of Black people	26:27
	have been wiped out by a few goody-goody gestures	26:31
	from a small group of people who actually run the country.	26:33
	We see a nation where the unemployment rates of minorities	26:37
	is still triple that of whites,	26:40
	and we ignore the fact	26:42
	that the numbers of Blacks going on to college	26:43
	is still significantly less than 10 to 15 years ago.	26:46
	And under the direction of the new Republican leadership,	26:50
	we are about to see rollbacks	26:53
	that will make our parents and grandparents think	26:55
	that we are back in the pre-Civil Rights Era.	26:58
	We see race-related health issues spiraling in our community	27:01
	as rates of cancer, heart disease,	27:05
	and AIDS threaten to wipe us out.	27:07
	In response to a distant tyrant,	27:11
	we sent hundreds of thousands	27:14
	of Americans' mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters	27:15
	to the Persian Gulf	27:19
	at a cost of $500 million a day	27:20
	to protect, as former Secretary of State Jim Baker put it,	27:24
	our lifestyle and standard of living	27:27
	and the rights of the Kuwaiti people,	27:30
	while we fail to engage the enemies of hunger,	27:32
	homelessness, and wanton violence	27:35
	on our own home soil.	27:37
	The 1992 president's budget proposed only $100 million	27:40
	to increase Head Start for one year	27:45
	and $500 million each day for Desert Storm.	27:47
	It is a morally lost nation	27:52
	that is unable and unwilling to disarm our children	27:54
	and those who kill our children in their school buses,	27:57
	strollers, yards, kitchens, and playgrounds.	28:00
	Death stalks America's playgrounds and streets	28:04
	without a declaration of war	28:07
	or even a sustained declaration of concern	28:09
	by our president, governor, state and local officials,	28:12
	and especially by our new Republican Congress,	28:16
	who saw fit to glorify	28:19
	the most vilified symbols of children's violence,	28:20
	the "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers," as their mascot	28:23
	for their victory celebrations recently.	28:26
	(congregation applauding)	28:29
	If these daily transgressions	28:33
	against safety, sanity, and wellbeing	28:35
	that disproportionately plague	28:37
	the African American community	28:39
	were visited against us by members of any other country,	28:41
	these acts would be labeled terrorism,	28:45
	and if the children being killed in the cities	28:48
	were overwhelmingly white,	28:50
	there would be a massive national response	28:52
	to stop the violence.	28:55
	(congregation applauding)	28:56
	But do the powers	29:02
	that really care about kids, white or Black, really care,	29:03
	or will it have to await the inclusion	29:07
	of children of congresspersons, industrialists	29:09
	and business magnates in these horrid statistics	29:12
	before anything else is done?	29:16
	Although trying to best,	29:18
	to erect itself an actual and psychological barrier	29:21
	between themselves and those people, aka Blacks,	29:26
	the refusal of the white community	29:30
	to join us in retaking our children's future ensures	29:32
	that corpses of their own young	29:36
	will be added to the numbers of ours.	29:38
	This country has yet to decide	29:40
	to guarantee to all its citizens	29:42
	and especially to its children	29:45
	the health, education, safety, and economic viability	29:47
	that Dr. King so passionately fought for	29:51
	and gave his life for.	29:54
	All children in America possess an equal opportunity	29:57
	to be poorly cared for, indifferently nurtured,	30:00
	exploited, neglected, and abused.	30:03
	So the horrid bloody drama unfolding on the streets,	30:05
	especially in the Black community,	30:10
	is no more than the unashamed echo	30:12
	of the kind of lethal societal indifference	30:15
	that Dr. King helped us stay away from.	30:19
	We have all been co-participants in this descent.	30:22
	We have all forgotten the price	30:26
	that Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers,	30:27
	and Fannie Lou Hamer and Rosa Parks	30:30
	and countless thousands of unnamed others	30:32
	have paid for our freedom,	30:35
	and we dishonor their memory	30:37
	by our individual and collective apathy.	30:38
	So why are we here?	30:41
	We are not here merely to celebrate the fact	30:43
	that we were fortunate heirs	30:45
	of the legacies of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks.	30:47
	Their lifework require a bigger paycheck from us.	30:51
	They would want us to celebrate their lives	30:55
	by not just resolving to face up to our collective guilt	30:57
	for either active or passive roles	31:01
	in allowing our country to disintegrate	31:04
	to its present state.	31:06
	Each year I've been impressed	31:08
	that the celebrations honoring Dr. King	31:10
	seem to get bigger and better and more numerous.	31:12
	We remember the great civil rights struggles	31:15
	of the '50s and '60s as if they are history,	31:17
	relegated to the past,	31:21
	to be read about, depending on which curriculum you get,	31:22
	like the Crusades	31:26
	and as if there's nothing further for us to do.	31:28
	There was a transcendent moment in our history	31:32
	when we faced bulldogs, water cannons, jail cells,	31:34
	fire bombs, assassinations, and sacrifice	31:38
	so that our children could become full citizens.	31:42
	We have faced guns before.	31:45
	In the past they were aimed at us	31:47
	by mobs cloaked in white sheets.	31:49
	Now they are held on us by our own children.	31:51
	Do we fear our children more than we fear racists?	31:54
	Did we want to integrate more	31:57
	than we want to save ourselves from extinction?	31:59
	I think not.	32:01
	The issues that Dr. King fought for, gave his life for,	32:03
	that even the struggle	32:07
	to get this holiday recognized represent	32:08
	are far from settled,	32:11
	although there are a few who would have you believe	32:13
	that a few laws and mere concessions	32:15
	have solved all our problems.	32:18
	We are here, good people, not to dress up,	32:20
	pat ourselves on the back,	32:23
	breathe a sigh of relief that we have gotten this far	32:24
	and go home to business as usual.	32:27
	We are here or should be here to rededicate ourselves	32:29
	to perhaps an even more sacred trust,	32:33
	to reclaim ourselves, to reclaim our community,	32:36
	to reclaim our children, and to reclaim our destiny.	32:40
	We know what is required,	32:44
	a moral and ethical transformation	32:45
	that will make us bold and compassionate,	32:48
	intuitive and strategic,	32:51
	demanding yet forgiving.	32:53
	We created and became our best selves	32:56
	in the so-called struggle for freedom.	32:59
	We knew how to win moral and material skirmishes	33:01
	under Dr. King's tutelage,	33:05
	how to create an army of domestic workers,	33:07
	college students, janitors,	33:09
	college professors, and preachers.	33:11
	We knew how to march and shame this nation.	33:14
	Our failure to push ourselves	33:17
	out of the comfortable insulation	33:19
	of the conventional, safe, private havens	33:21
	of our comfortable lives shames us now.	33:25
	The present challenge descends directly	33:28
	from the unfinished business	33:31
	that Black and white America left behind	33:33
	with Dr. King's death.	33:35
	Paralyzed by debate, indifferent, factionalized,	33:37
	unable to caucus unless the cameras wait outside,	33:41
	we watch as our sons and daughters embrace destruction	33:45
	because we will not place ourselves	33:48
	between them and this madness.	33:51
	We don't love them enough to insist, to demand,	33:53
	to require, to provide that they live.	33:57
	The legacies that Dr. King and our parents and teachers left	34:01
	to our generation of Black children	34:06
	were priceless, not material.	34:08
	A living faith reflected in daily service,	34:10
	the discipline of hard work and stick-to-it-ness,	34:13
	and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.	34:16
	Giving up and burnout were not in our vocabulary.	34:20
	You got up every morning, you did what you had to do,	34:23
	and you got up every time you fell down,	34:25
	and you tried as many times as you had	34:27
	to get it done the right way.	34:29
	I am privileged to say	34:33
	that those people taught me.	34:36
	I still hope that I will be half as good	34:39
	as those elders in my community,	34:42
	and I thank God every day	34:44
	that I was the recipient of that legacy.	34:46
	The equation for all of this is quite simple, you see.	34:50
	It consists of education,	34:54
	ensuring that our children are educated and prepared	34:56
	to step into positions of leadership for the 21st century.	34:59
	We must remember that education is their birthright,	35:03
	and we must be vigilant	35:06
	that discrimination is erased from our classrooms,	35:08
	faculties, and administrations.	35:11
	Ethical values.	35:14
	We must find other ways than the media	35:16
	or control the media to better distill and transmit	35:19
	respect for human rights and the value of life.	35:22
	We must remember that especially as Blacks,	35:26
	the church has been our lifeblood.	35:29
	We must know that we are people of God	35:31
	and that as Christians when we stand against evil	35:33
	in any time and place,	35:36
	we are doing God's work.	35:38
	We must use	35:41
	the almost $400 billion gross national product	35:43
	of the Black community as skillfully as our ancestors	35:47
	and reinvest in our own community.	35:50
	We must empower our own community.	35:53
	Better health.	35:56
	We must work tirelessly	35:57
	to build the health and wellness of our communities.	35:59
	Our healthcare needs parallel those	36:02
	of undeveloped countries.	36:05
	We must confront the fact	36:07
	that cancer, heart disease, hypertension,	36:09
	alcoholism, drug addiction, AIDS, and violence	36:12
	is having a tremendous impact on our future.	36:16
	Corporate responsibility.	36:20
	We must face the fact that we are responsible	36:22
	for those who come behind us,	36:25
	that we must invest in them in more ways than money,	36:27
	and we must remember our sacred covenant	36:30
	to bring somebody with us.	36:33
	We must rededicate ourselves	36:35
	to work tirelessly to help end the violence	36:38
	which is destroying our communities.	36:41
	We say enough of the violence which is killing our children	36:43
	and destroying a generation of young Black men.	36:46
	We must close ranks again to find ways	36:50
	to help those institutions in our community,	36:52
	church, civic groups,	36:55
	joint partnerships between private and public sector,	36:57
	to take back our children and steal them from death's grasp	37:01
	and give them life and hope.	37:04
	Last year, it was through my son's favorite bedtime story,	37:08
	"Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt,"	37:12
	that the true meaning of this celebration	37:14
	became immediately obvious.	37:15
	As I sat to write these thoughts,	37:17
	he read "Sweet Clara" to me	37:19
	and reminded me to tell you to be like Clara.	37:22
	Clara, a young slave	37:26
	who was separated from her mother at auction,	37:28
	is taught to be a seamstress by her Aunt Rachel,	37:30
	with whom she is sent to a faraway plantation.	37:33
	She dreams of freedom and of being reunited with her family.	37:36
	Upon moving from the field to the Big House,	37:40
	she begins to hear of the North Star,	37:43
	the Underground Railroad, and Canada from other slaves.	37:45
	But she nor they have a map,	37:49
	and without a map to the Ohio River and northward,	37:51
	freedom is only a dream.	37:53
	In a flash of inspiration,	37:55
	she sees how to use the scraps of leftover cloth	37:57
	to sew a map of the land, a freedom quilt,	38:01
	which she sews as she hears landmarks talked about	38:05
	by the visitors to her master's plantation	38:08
	and from slaves who talked about the land	38:11
	without knowing what Clara was really doing.	38:13
	When the quilt was finished,	38:17
	she marked it with a bright star at the top	38:18
	and with courage and resourcefulness	38:21
	made her own way back to her mother	38:24
	and subsequently all went to freedom.	38:26
	Her last act before escaping the plantation	38:30
	was to leave her quilt to cover her ailing aunt,	38:33
	who promised to share the quilt with those who would follow.	38:35
	Clara knew that her aunt had kept her sacred trust	38:39
	as many slaves told her of the quilt	38:43
	and how they passed to freedom by its direction.	38:46
	As he finished reading the story to me,	38:50
	a smile peeled across my face through the tears	38:52
	because I had been reassured that he, even at his young age,	38:56
	understood the unfinished business passed now to him.	39:00
	He had reminded me that it is our children	39:04
	who are God's presents,	39:07
	his promise and his hope for humankind.	39:08
	And it is for Clara, Harriet,	39:12
	Medgar, Fannie, Martin,	39:15
	and all those young Martins and Rosas	39:17
	that this celebration tonight is meant.	39:20
	Thank you.	39:23
	(congregation applauding)
-	It's always difficult to follow Brenda Armstrong,	39:47
	but it's an honor as well.	39:52
	It's especially an honor for me tonight	39:55
	to bring you greetings from Duke University Medical Center	39:57
	to this service	40:02
	in celebration of the birthdate of Dr. Martin Luther King.	40:04
	We celebrate Dr. King's victories	40:08
	in the Civil Rights Movement,	40:11
	we mourn his loss,	40:13
	and we look to a future, which Brenda expressed so well,	40:15
	leaves much work to be done.	40:19
	The medical center this year	40:23
	has mourned the loss of our own.	40:25
	We've mourned the loss	40:28
	of one of our most valued faculty members,	40:29
	Dr. George Phillips.	40:32
	An African American who grew up in rural Alabama	40:35
	in abject poverty,	40:39
	Dr. Phillips achieved national recognition	40:41
	for his scientific work at Duke	40:44
	in trying to understand sickle cell anemia.	40:48
	He received greater praise, however,	40:52
	for his compassionate care of African Americans	40:54
	who suffered the pain of sickle cell disease.	40:58
	So as with Dr. King, this year in the medical center	41:02
	is a time to celebrate a life,	41:07
	to mourn a loss,	41:10
	but it's also, just on the occasion of Dr. King's birthdate,	41:14
	a time to look to a future with much work to be done.	41:19
	Sickle cell disease reflects	41:24
	our successes and our failures in providing healthcare	41:26
	to African Americans in this country.	41:30
	Sickle cell anemia is found in as many as 4% of Africans	41:33
	and 1% of African Americans.	41:39
	In other words, it's one of the most frequent diseases	41:42
	we have in our society.	41:45
	Sickle cell disease has been traced back to at least 1670,	41:47
	where it was noted to be present	41:52
	in the Krobo tribe in Ghana.	41:53
	So it's one of the longest known diseases	41:56
	by western physicians,	41:59
	but it took nearly 300 years,	42:02
	up until 1939 in Memphis, Tennessee, of interest,	42:05
	that Dr. L. W. Diggs discovered the mechanism	42:10
	by which the pain of this disease	42:14
	and the occlusion of the blood vessels	42:18
	caused by the disease occur.	42:19
	And that is the irreversible changes	42:22
	in the shape of the red blood cell	42:25
	from a sphere to a sickle,	42:29
	which in turn would clog up blood vessels.	42:32
	Linus Pauling among other persons	42:35
	helped us to discover that the disease was caused	42:39
	by an abnormality in a single gene.	42:42
	You might say we've learned a lot	42:47
	in just a few years about sickle cell disease.	42:50
	Yet this disease	42:55
	and the discoveries we've made about it	42:58
	leaves very much work to be done.	43:00
	To be quite honest, we remain relatively ineffective	43:04
	in providing adequate care	43:09
	to persons suffering from sickle cell disease.	43:11
	This is due both to a lack of knowledge	43:15
	regarding the best means of therapy	43:19
	and to a failure in our healthcare system	43:22
	that is at present inadequate	43:26
	in its delivery of comprehensive and compassionate care	43:30
	to persons suffering from this disease.	43:34
	Therefore, we at Duke Medical Center	43:37
	can share in the spirit of this occasion,	43:39
	especially in 1995.	43:42
	We celebrate the lives of Dr. King and Dr. Phillips,	43:46
	we mourn their loss,	43:51
	and we look to a future	43:54
	where there's much left to be done.	43:56
	Our successes and our failures	44:00
	in caring for patients with sickle cell disease	44:03
	are ever-present reminders	44:08
	that the past is still with us	44:13
	and only a prologue for the future.	44:16
	Thank you.	44:19
	(congregation applauding)	44:20
-	Welcome.	44:32
	Welcome to the Chapel at Duke University	44:34
	in the city of Durham.	44:38
	This is wonderful.	44:41
	Every seat is filled.	44:43
	It fills my heart because I know	44:46
	that all of you will witness	44:48
	a beautiful and thoughtful service	44:52
	to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.	44:55
	I'm pleased to bring you greetings	44:59
	from the Durham City Council	45:01
	as we gather in remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr.	45:04
	Dr. King's life was dedicated	45:09
	to the principles of racial equality,	45:13
	mutual understanding,	45:16
	and nonviolent social change.	45:18
	While he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize	45:22
	at the early age of 35 for his outstanding work,	45:25
	he also paid for espousing	45:30
	these important principles	45:33
	by meeting with a violent death	45:36
	soon thereafter.	45:39
	Dr. King would surely be saddened	45:43
	were he alive in the violent society we live in today.	45:48
	We all share that sense of sadness.	45:54
	In his memory,	45:59
	let us carefully reflect	46:01
	on how we can prevent violence	46:03
	and how we can work together	46:07
	to promote greater peace and greater harmony	46:11
	with our fellow citizens.	46:15
	This event honoring the memory of Dr. King	46:19
	provides an opportunity	46:24
	for renewed dedication	46:26
	to our joint efforts to realize his dream.	46:29
	That dream, after all,	46:34
	was for a world	46:38
	in which we can all live our lives in peace,	46:39
	in which we can all enjoy	46:45
	life's blessings.	46:48
	We in the city government	46:51
	want to be an active part	46:54
	of the joint effort to realize that dream,	46:57
	and we will continue to seek ways	47:02
	to move ahead.	47:05
	I am sure that together,	47:07
	we really can make a difference.	47:10
	Let us all try.	47:15
	Thank you.	47:17
	(congregation applauding)	47:18
-	Our Scripture reading this evening will come from	47:30
	the book of Genesis, 37th chapter,	47:34
	beginning with verse 15 and ending with verse 18.	47:37
	"And a certain man found him,	47:43
	and behold, he was wandering in the field.	47:46
	And the man asked him, saying, 'What seekest thou?'	47:49
	And he said, 'I seek my brethren.	47:53
	Tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks.'	47:56
	And the man said, 'They are departed hence;	48:01
	for I heard them say, "Let us go to Dothan."'	48:04
	And Joseph went after his brethren and found them in Dothan.	48:07
	And when they saw him afar off,	48:12
	even before he came near unto them,	48:15
	they conspired against him to slay him.	48:18
	And they said one to another,	48:21
	'Behold, this dreamer cometh.'"	48:24
	May the Lord add a blessing to the reading	48:27
	and the hearing of his Holy Word.	48:29
	Amen.	48:31
	(congregation applauding)	48:32
	(solemn piano music)	49:03
	(spirited piano music)	49:57
	(choir clapping)	50:12
	♪ If you confess the Lord, call him up ♪	50:20
	♪ If you confess the Lord, call him up ♪	50:25
	♪ If you confess the Lord, call him up ♪	50:31
	♪ If you confess the Lord, call him up ♪	50:37
	♪ If you believe in the Father, the Son ♪	50:42
	♪ And the Holy Ghost ♪	50:44
	♪ Call him up ♪	50:47
	♪ And tell him what you want ♪	50:49
	♪ If you confess the Lord, call him up ♪	50:54
	♪ If you confess the Lord, call him up ♪	51:00
	♪ If you confess the Lord, call him up ♪	51:05
	♪ If you confess the Lord, call him up ♪	51:11
	♪ If you believe in the Father, the Son ♪	51:16
	♪ And the Holy Ghost ♪	51:18
	♪ Call him up ♪	51:21
	♪ And tell him what you want ♪	51:23
	♪ Delight yourself in the Lord ♪	51:28
	♪ And he will give you the desires of thine heart ♪	51:33
	♪ Jesus knows sometimes we stumble ♪	51:38
	♪ Jesus knows sometimes we fall ♪	51:41
	♪ Call him up ♪	51:44
	♪ And tell him what you want ♪	51:46
	♪ Delight yourself in the Lord ♪	51:51
	♪ And he will give you the desires of thine heart ♪	51:55
	♪ Jesus knows sometimes we stumble ♪	52:01
	♪ Jesus knows sometimes we fall ♪	52:04
	♪ Call him up ♪	52:07
	♪ And tell him what you want ♪	52:08
	♪ When darkness comes your way ♪	52:19
	♪ Call him up ♪	52:21
	♪ He'll brighten up your day ♪	52:25
	♪ Call him up ♪	52:27
	♪ When darkness comes your way ♪	52:31
	♪ Call him up ♪	52:33
	♪ He'll brighten up your day ♪	52:36
	♪ Call him up ♪	52:38
	♪ If you believe in the Father, the Son ♪	52:42
	♪ And the Holy Ghost ♪	52:44
	♪ Call him up ♪	52:47
	♪ And tell him what you want ♪	52:48
	♪ Delight yourself in the Lord ♪	52:53
	♪ And he will give you the desires of thine heart ♪	52:58
	♪ Jesus knows sometimes we stumble ♪	53:04
	♪ Jesus knows sometimes we fall ♪	53:06
	♪ Call him up ♪	53:09
	♪ And tell him what you want ♪	53:11
	♪ Can't stop praising his name ♪	53:23
	♪ I just can't stop praising his name ♪	53:25
	♪ I just can't stop praising his name ♪	53:27
	♪ Jesus ♪	53:31
	♪ Can't stop praising his name ♪	53:34
	♪ I just can't stop praising his name ♪	53:36
	♪ I just can't stop praising his name ♪	53:39
	♪ Jesus ♪	53:42
	♪ Can't stop praising his name ♪	53:45
	♪ I just can't stop praising his name ♪	53:47
	♪ I just can't stop praising his name ♪	53:50
	♪ Jesus ♪	53:53
	♪ Jesus ♪	53:58
	♪ Jesus, Jesus ♪	54:01
	♪ Jesus, Jesus ♪	54:04
	♪ Jesus, Hallelujah, Jesus ♪	54:07
	♪ Praise his holy name ♪	54:11
	♪ Jesus, Hallelujah, Jesus ♪	54:12
	♪ Praise his holy name ♪	54:17
	♪ Can't stop praising his name ♪	54:18
	♪ I just can't stop praising his name ♪	54:20
	♪ I just can't stop praising his name ♪	54:23
	♪ Jesus ♪	54:26
	(congregation applauding)	54:28
	(jaunty piano music)	54:42
	(choir clapping)	55:04
	♪ I don't possess houses or land ♪	55:14
	♪ Fine clothes or jewelry ♪	55:17
	♪ Sorrows and cares of this old world ♪	55:21
	♪ My lot seems to be ♪	55:25
	♪ But I have Christ, he paid the price ♪	55:29
	♪ Way back on Calvary ♪	55:33
	♪ And Christ is all ♪	55:36
	♪ Yes, Christ is all ♪	55:38
	♪ He's everything to me, he ♪	55:40
	♪ I don't possess houses or land ♪	55:44
	♪ Fine clothes or jewelry ♪	55:48
	♪ Sorrows and cares of this old world ♪	55:51
	♪ My lot seems to be ♪	55:55
	♪ But I have Christ, he paid the price ♪	55:59
	♪ Way back on Calvary ♪	56:03
	♪ And Christ is all ♪	56:07
	♪ Yes, Christ is all ♪	56:08
	♪ He's everything to me, he ♪	56:10
	♪ Yes, Christ is all ♪	56:16
	♪ He's everything to me ♪	56:19
	♪ Yes, Christ is all ♪	56:22
	♪ Yes, Christ is all ♪	56:24
	♪ He rules the land and sea ♪	56:26
	♪ Yes, Christ is all ♪	56:29
	♪ Yes, Christ is all ♪	56:31
	♪ Without him, nothing could be ♪	56:34
	♪ Yes, Christ is all ♪	56:37
	♪ Yes, Christ is all ♪	56:39
	♪ He's everything to me, he ♪	56:41
	♪ Yes, Christ is all ♪	56:47
	♪ He's everything to me ♪	56:50
	♪ Yes, Christ is all ♪	56:52
	♪ Yes, Christ is all ♪	56:54
	♪ He rules the land and sea ♪	56:57
	♪ Yes, Christ is all ♪	57:00
	♪ Yes, Christ is all ♪	57:02
	♪ Without him, nothing could be ♪	57:05
	♪ Yes, Christ is all ♪	57:08
	♪ Yes, Christ is all ♪	57:10
	♪ He's everything to me, he ♪	57:12
	♪ My joy in sorrow ♪	57:18
	♪ My hope for tomorrow ♪	57:20
	♪ He's everything ♪	57:22
	♪ Everything to me ♪	57:24
	♪ Food on the table ♪	57:26
	♪ I know he's able ♪	57:28
	♪ He's everything ♪	57:30
	♪ Everything to me ♪	57:32
	♪ He saved me ♪	57:34
	♪ He raised me ♪	57:36
	♪ He healed me ♪	57:38
	♪ He delivered me ♪	57:40
	♪ I tried him ♪	57:42
	♪ I trust him ♪	57:44
	♪ I love him ♪	57:46
	♪ I love him ♪	57:48
	♪ Yes, he's everything ♪	57:50
	♪ Yes, he's everything to me ♪	57:53
	♪ I love the Lord ♪
	♪ Yes, he's everything ♪	57:57
	♪ Yes, he's everything to me ♪	58:01
	♪ I love the Lord ♪
	♪ Yes, he's everything ♪	58:05
	♪ Yes, he's everything to me ♪	58:09
	♪ I love the Lord ♪
	♪ Yes, he's everything ♪	58:13
	♪ Yes, he's everything to me ♪	58:16
	♪ I love the Lord ♪
	♪ Yes, he's everything ♪	58:20
	(audience cheering)
	♪ Yes, he's everything to me ♪	58:24
	♪ Yes, he's everything ♪	58:28
	(congregation cheering)
	♪ Yes, he's everything to me ♪	58:32
	♪ Yes, he's everything ♪	58:36
	(congregation cheering)
	♪ Yes, he's ♪	58:40
	♪ I love the Lord, he's everything ♪	58:41
	♪ Yes, he's everything ♪	58:43
	♪ Yes, he's everything to me ♪	58:47
	♪ I love the Lord ♪
	♪ Yes ♪	58:51
	(congregation applauding and cheering)	58:54
	(jaunty piano music)	59:21
	(congregation applauding)	59:33
-	Truly, this is to be reckoned one of the great moments	1:00:15
	in the history of this university	1:00:20
	and of the city of Durham.	1:00:24
	Well, following me to the podium	1:00:29
	will be the Reverend Bernice A. King.	1:00:34
	If you think you've heard the name before, you have.	1:00:42
	For the Reverend King	1:00:48
	is the third generation	1:00:51
	of an illustrious family	1:00:55
	devoted to the service	1:01:01
	of God and man.	1:01:05
	So she comes well-recommended,	1:01:10
	not only because	1:01:14
	of her place in the context	1:01:18
	of the life of that great martyr,	1:01:23
	Martin Luther King,	1:01:28
	who was her father,	1:01:32
	but because of who she is	1:01:35
	in her own right.	1:01:39
	In her own right,	1:01:43
	she's a very young woman,	1:01:48
	a graduate of Spelman University	1:01:51
	with a divinity degree from Emory University,	1:02:00
	doctor of laws from Emory University.	1:02:07
	She is a person who at a very tender age	1:02:14
	dedicated her life to God	1:02:21
	and to the service of man.	1:02:26
	She's a woman who was called to preach	1:02:32
	at the age of 17,	1:02:37
	the same year	1:02:42
	that she addressed the United Nations Assembly.	1:02:45
	The Reverend King	1:02:51
	serves on the board	1:02:55
	of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center	1:02:56
	for Nonviolent Change.	1:03:00
	She has a very active prison ministry.	1:03:05
	She has a full schedule of community services.	1:03:10
	And in her spare time,	1:03:16
	she is the associate minister	1:03:20
	of the Greater Rising Star Baptist Church	1:03:25
	in the city of Atlanta.	1:03:30
	But she is more than all that.	1:03:35
	She is the continuation of a dream,	1:03:41
	a dream that must not be permitted to languish.	1:03:46
	And in the spirit of the promise of that dream,	1:03:54
	we welcome the Reverend Bernice A. King	1:04:01
	to Duke University and to Durham.	1:04:07
	May God bless her vision,	1:04:13
	and may we receive her	1:04:18
	with love and appreciation.	1:04:21
	The Reverend King.	1:04:24
	(congregation applauding)	1:04:25
	(lilting piano music)	1:05:40
	♪ Praise God ♪	1:07:04
	♪ Praise God ♪	1:07:09
	♪ God is worthy to be praised ♪	1:07:13
	♪ Ohhhh ♪	1:07:19
	♪ Oh, praise God ♪	1:07:21
	♪ Oh, praise him ♪	1:07:27
	♪ Praise God ♪
	♪ God is worthy to be praised ♪	1:07:32
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:07:42
	♪ Hallelujah, whoa ♪	1:07:45
	♪ Hallelujah ♪
	♪ God is worthy to be praised ♪	1:07:51
	♪ Lift your head and sing Hallelujah ♪	1:07:57
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:08:00
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:08:04
	♪ Hallelujah ♪
	♪ God is worthy ♪	1:08:09
	♪ God is worthy to be praised ♪
	♪ Whoa, can you say God is worthy ♪	1:08:14
	♪ God is worthy ♪	1:08:19
	♪ Oh, yes he is ♪	1:08:22
	♪ God is worthy ♪
	♪ My god is worthy ♪	1:08:27
	♪ God is worthy to be praised ♪
	♪ Whoa, he is worthy ♪	1:08:32
	♪ Ohhhh ♪	1:08:35
	♪ Lord, he is worthy ♪
	♪ God is worthy ♪	1:08:37
	♪ My God is worthy ♪
	♪ Whoa, God is worthy ♪	1:08:41
	♪ God is worthy ♪
	♪ God is worthy ♪	1:08:45
	♪ God is worthy to be praised ♪
-	If God has ever done something special in your life.	1:08:53
	Has he ever been that person you know where to turn to?	1:08:58
	Have he ever been that special friend	1:09:02
	when you needed someone the most?	1:09:05
	Then, church, let's step out once and say.	1:09:07
	♪ Praise ♪	1:09:09
	♪ Praise God ♪	1:09:13
	♪ Whoa, praise God ♪
	♪ Praise God ♪	1:09:17
	(congregation applauding)
	♪ God is worthy ♪	1:09:21
	♪ God is worthy ♪	1:09:22
	♪ Yes, he is ♪
	♪ To be praised ♪	1:09:25
	♪ Whoooaaa ♪
	♪ Ohhhh ♪	1:09:28
	♪ Praise God ♪	1:09:31
	♪ God, praise God ♪
	♪ Praise God ♪	1:09:35
	♪ Lord God is ♪	1:09:39
	♪ God is worthy ♪
	♪ To be praised ♪	1:09:43
	♪ He's been better to us than we've been to ourselves ♪	1:09:45
	♪ God is worthy ♪	1:09:48
	♪ God is worthy ♪
	♪ To be praised ♪	1:09:51
	♪ Oh, I know he is ♪
	♪ Yes, he is ♪	1:09:55
	♪ My God is worthy ♪	1:09:56
	♪ God is worthy ♪
	♪ To be praised ♪	1:10:00
	♪ Ohhhhh ♪
	♪ Praise God ♪	1:10:04
	(congregation applauding)	1:10:10
	(gentle piano music)	1:10:26
	♪ King of my life ♪	1:10:57
	♪ I crown thee now ♪	1:11:00
	♪ Thine shall the glory be ♪	1:11:04
	♪ Lest I forget ♪	1:11:10
	♪ Thy thorn-crowned brow ♪	1:11:12
	♪ Lead me to Calvary ♪	1:11:16
	♪ King of my life ♪	1:11:23
	♪ I crown thee now ♪	1:11:25
	♪ Thine shall the glory be ♪	1:11:29
	♪ Lest I forget ♪	1:11:35
	♪ Thy thorn-crowned brow ♪	1:11:37
	♪ Lead me to Calvary ♪	1:11:41
	♪ Lest I forget ♪	1:11:47
	♪ Gethsemane ♪	1:11:50
	♪ Lest I forget ♪	1:11:53
	♪ Thine agony ♪	1:11:56
	♪ Lest I forget thy love for me ♪	1:11:59
	♪ Lead me to Calvary ♪	1:12:05
	♪ Lest I forget ♪	1:12:11
	♪ Gethsemane ♪	1:12:14
	♪ Lest I forget ♪	1:12:20
	♪ Thine agony ♪	1:12:23
	(congregation applauding)	1:12:30
	♪ Lest I forget thy love for me ♪	1:12:30
	♪ Lead me to Calvary ♪	1:12:36
	♪ Lead me to Calvary ♪	1:12:42
	♪ Lead me to Calvary ♪	1:12:48
-	[Congregation Member] Amen.	1:12:55
	♪ Ohhhhhhhhhh ♪	1:12:56
	♪ Ohhhh ♪	1:12:58
	♪ Amen ♪	1:13:01
	♪ Ohhhhhhhhhh ♪	1:13:03
	♪ Ohhhh ♪	1:13:06
	♪ Ohhhh ♪	1:13:08
	♪ Ohhhh ♪	1:13:10
	(congregation applauding)
	♪ Ohhhh ♪	1:13:12
	♪ Amen ♪	1:13:16
	(congregation applauding)	1:13:18
	(lively piano music)	1:13:37
	(choir clapping)	1:13:41
	♪ Leaning, keep leaning on Jesus ♪	1:14:05
	♪ Every step of the way ♪	1:14:10
	♪ Lord, keep us under your wing ♪	1:14:14
	♪ Every step of the way ♪	1:14:18
	♪ Yes ♪	1:14:21
	♪ Leaning, keep leaning on Jesus ♪	1:14:23
	♪ Every step of the way ♪	1:14:27
	♪ Lord keep us under your wing ♪	1:14:31
	♪ Every step of the way ♪	1:14:35
	♪ Yes ♪	1:14:38
	♪ Once I praise you, once I glorify, ♪	1:14:48
	♪ Lean on the blessed hope ♪	1:14:52
	♪ Once I praise you, once I praise the light ♪	1:14:56
	♪ Every step of the way ♪	1:15:00
	♪ Yes ♪	1:15:03
	♪ Once I praise you, once I glorify ♪	1:15:05
	♪ Lean on the blessed hope ♪	1:15:09
	♪ Once I praise you, once I praise the light ♪	1:15:13
	♪ Every step of the way ♪	1:15:17
	♪ Yes ♪	1:15:19
	♪ Whoa, he'll be there ♪	1:15:28
	♪ He'll be there come trouble to keep you safe ♪	1:15:30
	♪ The Lord will ♪	1:15:33
	♪ He'll be there come trouble to keep you safe ♪	1:15:34
	♪ My God will ♪	1:15:37
	♪ He'll be there ♪	1:15:39
	♪ Oh, yes, he will ♪
	♪ The Lord will ♪	1:15:41
	♪ He'll be there come trouble to keep you safe ♪	1:15:43
	♪ My God will ♪	1:15:45
	♪ He'll be there come trouble to keep you safe ♪	1:15:47
	♪ Yes, he will, yeah ♪	1:15:49
	♪ He'll be there come trouble to keep you safe ♪	1:15:51
	♪ He'll be there ♪	1:15:53
	♪ He'll be there ♪	1:15:54
	♪ Oh, he'll be there ♪
	♪ He'll be there ♪	1:15:57
	♪ My God will ♪
	♪ He'll be there ♪	1:15:59
	♪ Oh, yes, he will ♪
	♪ He'll be there ♪	1:16:01
	♪ The Lord will ♪
	♪ He'll be there ♪	1:16:03
	♪ Oh, yes, he will ♪
	♪ He may not come when you want him but he's right on time ♪	1:16:05
	♪ The Lord will ♪	1:16:09
	♪ He'll be there ♪	1:16:11
	♪ Oh, yes, he will ♪
	♪ He'll be there ♪	1:16:13
	♪ My God will ♪
	♪ He'll be there ♪	1:16:15
	♪ Oh, yes, he will ♪
	♪ He may not come when you want him but he's right on time ♪	1:16:17
	♪ He may not come when you want him but he's right on time ♪	1:16:21
	♪ Just call him in the morning ♪	1:16:25
	♪ He'll be there ♪	1:16:27
	♪ Just call him in the new day ♪
	♪ He'll be there ♪	1:16:29
	♪ Just call him in the evening ♪
	♪ He'll be there ♪	1:16:31
	♪ Oh, yes, he will ♪
	♪ He'll be there ♪	1:16:32
	♪ Through your trial ♪
	♪ He'll be there ♪	1:16:35
	♪ And tribulation ♪
	♪ He'll be there ♪	1:16:37
	♪ My God will ♪
	♪ He'll be there ♪	1:16:39
	♪ Oh, yes, he will ♪
	♪ He'll be there ♪	1:16:41
	♪ The Lord will ♪
	♪ He'll be there ♪	1:16:43
	♪ Oh, yes, he will ♪
	♪ He'll be there ♪	1:16:45
	♪ One more time ♪
	♪ He'll be there ♪	1:16:47
	♪ Oh, yes, he will ♪
	♪ Lord, yeah ♪	1:16:48
	♪ He'll be there ♪
	♪ Glorify some more ♪	1:16:50
	♪ Yeah, Lord ♪
	♪ You are there ♪	1:16:52
	♪ Every ♪	1:16:53
	♪ Every step ♪
	♪ Every step, yeah ♪	1:16:55
	♪ Every step ♪	1:16:56
	♪ Every step, yeah ♪
	♪ Every step of the way ♪	1:16:58
	♪ Yes ♪	1:17:00
	♪ He will be there ♪	1:17:04
	(congregation applauding)	1:17:05
-	Let the church say Amen.	1:18:33
Congregation	Amen.	1:18:35
-	This is the day that the Lord have made.	1:18:40
-	[Congregation Member] Yes, it is.	1:18:45
-	This is also the day that the Lord	1:18:49
	made Martin Luther King Jr.	1:18:53
	And I'd ask you if you would indulge me	1:18:59
	for a quick moment,	1:19:02
	if we could together with uplifted voices	1:19:04
	wish my father a happy birthday in unison.	1:19:08
	And when I say three,	1:19:13
	you say happy birthday, Dr. King.	1:19:15
-	Amen.	1:19:18
-	One, two, three.
Congregation	Happy birthday, Dr. King.	1:19:24
	(congregation applauding)	1:19:28
-	God is a mysterious God,	1:19:44
	and a moment ago,	1:19:46
	we experienced a change in the program.	1:19:49
	(congregation laughing)	1:19:53
	And many of you thought it was human error,	1:19:54
	but it was the spirit of God.	1:19:56
Congregation	Yes.	1:19:59
-	Because where I come from in the Baptist Church,	1:20:00
	we're used to folks singing	1:20:02
	to prepare us for the message that we're gonna bring forth.	1:20:05
	(congregation applauding)	1:20:07
	God always	1:20:16
	protects his own.	1:20:20
	To Reverend Brazil, Mayor Kerckhoff,	1:20:25
	Dr. Blazen, Dr. Armstrong,	1:20:29
	to this distinguished educator Dr. C. Eric Lincoln,	1:20:34
	to all of those clergy persons	1:20:42
	who labor in the vineyard with me,	1:20:44
	to our wonderful choirs for this program.	1:20:50
	(congregation applauding)	1:20:55
	And to all of you, my brothers and sisters.	1:21:02
	I first and foremost want to thank God my Father	1:21:07
	for watching over me and protecting me.	1:21:12
	I want to thank his son Jesus Christ	1:21:16
	for my sole salvation.	1:21:20
Congregation	Amen.	1:21:22
-	And I want to thank God	1:21:24
	through the person of the Holy Spirit	1:21:25
	for giving me the strength to be an overcomer	1:21:28
	in these challenging times.	1:21:32
	(congregation applauding)	1:21:34
	It is indeed with a sense of joy	1:21:42
	that I stand before you on today,	1:21:46
	and I wish to thank	1:21:49
	Dr. Beckham through Mr. Hunt	1:21:52
	and all of the Duke family	1:21:55
	for inviting me to share with you	1:21:57
	in your Martin Luther King Jr. celebration.	1:21:59
	At one point in my life, I almost became a Dukie.	1:22:05
	(congregation laughing and applauding)	1:22:10
	But when I arrived on campus,	1:22:17
	the campus was so large	1:22:20
	that it was overwhelming,	1:22:24
	and the faces that I'm familiar with were very absent.	1:22:27
	(congregation laughing and applauding)	1:22:31
	And so it was hard for me at the age of 17	1:22:44
	leaving the safe, comfortable confines of mother's nest	1:22:47
	to find comfort	1:22:51
	and a sense of home in an environment	1:22:54
	that would have been totally different	1:22:57
	from an environment that I came from.	1:22:59
	So I ran back home.	1:23:01
	(congregation laughing)	1:23:03
	Yes, I was a coward at that time,	1:23:06
	but thanks be to God for grace and growth.	1:23:09
Congregation	Amen.	1:23:13
-	But I'm back here on this campus today,	1:23:16
	and I thank God for it.	1:23:19
	I've been telling people everywhere I've traveled this week.	1:23:22
	I've gone to Utah, to the University of Utah.	1:23:25
	I visited Morris Plains, New Jersey,	1:23:29
	a corporation there.	1:23:33
	The name slips me for some reason right now,	1:23:35
	the Warner-Lambert Corporation,	1:23:38
	which is responsible for the Halls that you eat	1:23:40
	and many, a lot of the products,	1:23:43
	Listerine, et cetera.	1:23:45
	I visited that corporation on Friday,	1:23:47
	and on Saturday morning, I was in Worcester, Massachusetts	1:23:50
	at Quinsigamond Community College.	1:23:54
	But I say all that to say	1:23:56
	that when I visited these various places,	1:23:58
	it is not unheard of during this time of the year	1:24:01
	for them to experience very cold and snowy weather.	1:24:05
	But when I arrived in Utah,	1:24:10
	the sun was shining, it was 48 degrees.	1:24:11
	I arrived in New Jersey, it was 56 degrees.	1:24:14
	I got to Massachusetts and it was going to be 60 that day.	1:24:17
	And today I'm at Duke, and I understand	1:24:22
	that this is unseasonably warm weather here.	1:24:24
	And I say that to say I brought the weather with me.	1:24:28
	(congregation laughing and applauding)	1:24:31
	When I leave, it might change	1:24:38
	'cause I'm gonna take it back to Atlanta	1:24:40
	and on over to LA tomorrow.	1:24:42
	(congregation laughing)	1:24:44
	Keep traveling with it.	1:24:45
-	[Congregation Member] Amen.	1:24:47
-	There's a story	1:24:56
	about a little boy and his father	1:25:02
	who were out on the lake fishing one day,	1:25:07
	and out of nowhere, the little boy started giggling.	1:25:13
	And the daddy said, "Johnny, why are you laughing?	1:25:19
	What's so funny?"	1:25:24
	And little Johnny didn't say a mumbling word.	1:25:27
	Well, a couple of hours passed and it was high noon,	1:25:32
	and little Johnny started giggling some more.	1:25:35
	And Daddy said, "Johnny,	1:25:41
	please tell me why are you laughing.	1:25:44
	I want to join with you."	1:25:46
	Little Johnny just said, "You'll see after a while, Daddy."	1:25:50
	Well, a couple of more hours pass by and guess what?	1:25:55
	Little Johnny started giggling some more.	1:25:59
	And by this time his father was infuriated,	1:26:03
	and so he said with righteous indignation,	1:26:06
	"Johnny, if you don't tell me what you're laughing about,	1:26:09
	I'm gonna whoop you."	1:26:12
	Well, little Johnny said, "Daddy,"	1:26:16
	and he took his finger and he pointed over to Daddy's side,	1:26:20
	and he said, "You have a hole	1:26:24
	in your side of the boat,	1:26:28
	and you're gonna drown."	1:26:31
	(congregation laughing)	1:26:33
	But what little Johnny did not realize	1:26:37
	in his little mind was that he was in the same boat.	1:26:41
	(congregation laughing and applauding)	1:26:44
	And if Daddy drowned, he was going to drown with him.	1:26:49
	Well, let me see if I can bring it home.	1:26:52
	(congregation laughing and applauding)	1:26:56
	When my father was living,	1:27:06
	one of the things he talked about	1:27:08
	is that this nation and world in which we live	1:27:10
	is threatened by three evil forces,	1:27:14
	and he called them poverty, racism, and war.	1:27:18
	And in many ways, these waters,	1:27:26
	these dangerous waters of poverty, racism, and war	1:27:28
	are seeking to overtake us	1:27:34
	in our society.	1:27:38
	And I often wonder, why do we have	1:27:42
	a hole in our boat?	1:27:46
	Why are we threatened	1:27:49
	by these evil forces?	1:27:52
	Why, in fact, have we allowed them to seep through	1:27:54
	in a society that's based	1:28:00
	in a premise that we are one nation under God?	1:28:04
	And I took my mind back to the time in Montgomery, Alabama.	1:28:10
	I wasn't there but the words come to me	1:28:17
	off of the sheets of paper that my father wrote on	1:28:21
	in a book called "Stride Toward Freedom."	1:28:26
	And he said, "When I got to Montgomery, Alabama,	1:28:30
	what really amazed me	1:28:33
	was not the fact	1:28:37
	that there were evil white brothers and sisters	1:28:38
	who were perpetuating a segregationist system,	1:28:41
	a system steeped in racism,	1:28:45
	but what disturbs me	1:28:48
	are the moderate white brothers and sisters	1:28:50
	who sit in places of comfortability,	1:28:54
	who are good in their hearts,	1:28:58
	but who sit by	1:29:01
	and do nothing."	1:29:04
-	[Congregation Member] Amen.	1:29:05
-	And as I think about those very words	1:29:09
	and I look out at all of you,	1:29:13
	I say to myself	1:29:19
	that in a real sense	1:29:21
	the reason we are threatened with the evils	1:29:22
	of poverty, racism, and war	1:29:25
	is because there's some good folks	1:29:29
	who are sitting here today.	1:29:30
-	Amen.	1:29:32
-	But you're sitting down
	on your seat of complacency.	1:29:34
	You're sitting down on your seat of apathy.	1:29:36
	You're sitting down on your seat of selfishness.	1:29:39
	Some are sitting down on their seat of greed.	1:29:42
	Some are sitting down	1:29:46
	on their seat of arrogance and elitism.	1:29:48
	Some are sitting down on their mentality,	1:29:52
	their atomic mentality.	1:29:56
	A-T-O-M-I-C, atoms.	1:29:58
	You know, they just kind of do their own thing.	1:30:03
	They really don't pay attention	1:30:07
	to the other atoms that are around.	1:30:08
	They just kind of float from place to place.	1:30:10
	And so today, if you really want to know why	1:30:15
	you see violence at unprecedented numbers,	1:30:20
	if you really want to know	1:30:23
	why in your country, in my country,	1:30:24
	every 14 hours,	1:30:27
	not even one day, complete day,	1:30:30
	but every 14 hours,	1:30:33
	a child younger than five years of age	1:30:37
	is murdered.	1:30:41
-	[Congregation Member] Amen!	1:30:42
-	And I want you to know these are not Black statistics.	1:30:46
	These are national statistics.	1:30:49
	And so to say it's not my problem	1:30:54
	because the hole's not on my side of the boat	1:30:57
	and I'm not gonna drown in this,	1:31:00
	you're deceiving yourself.	1:31:04
	(congregation applauding)	1:31:06
	But really, really what does that have to do	1:31:19
	with Martin Luther King Jr.?	1:31:26
	It has everything to do with him.	1:31:28
	Because we've gathered here today	1:31:33
	in his honor,	1:31:35
	in his recognition.	1:31:37
	And the irony of a gathering of this sort	1:31:39
	with people from all walks of the American life	1:31:43
	is that he, in fact, brought us together	1:31:49
	in a physical sense.	1:31:53
	But after tomorrow,	1:31:57
	at midnight,	1:32:01
	we will go back to doing some of the same things,	1:32:03
	thinking some of the same ways,	1:32:08
	and practicing some of the same ideologies.	1:32:10
	(congregation applauding)	1:32:13
	And the message I bring to you today	1:32:23
	is what I think can help you	1:32:29
	and even me	1:32:32
	get out of our complacency and apathy.	1:32:35
-	[Congregation Member] Amen.	1:32:39
-	Apathy.	1:32:40
	For, you see, Martin King	1:32:43
	was able to do something	1:32:46
	that not too many Americans have ever done,	1:32:49
	and that's really why masses of people followed him.	1:32:56
	No, it was not everybody.	1:33:00
	I'm no fool.	1:33:04
	But the reason that he could garner support	1:33:06
	from a cross-section of people	1:33:08
	who were committed and determined	1:33:11
	to follow his leadership	1:33:15
	was because of what he recognized	1:33:18
	as the spark of the divine.	1:33:22
	He read on a sheet of paper	1:33:27
	that "we hold these truths	1:33:32
	to be self-evident,	1:33:36
	that all," paraphrase, people	1:33:39
	(congregation laughing)	1:33:45
	"are created equal."	1:33:46
	(congregation applauding)
	Self-evident.	1:33:51
	Well, how did he know it was self-evident?	1:33:52
	Well, he recalled	1:33:54
	back in the book of Genesis, that first chapter,	1:33:57
	that 26th verse,	1:34:01
	reading, "And God said,	1:34:03
	let us make man,"	1:34:07
	which means really humanity in its interpretation,	1:34:09
	"in our image	1:34:14
	and after our likeness."	1:34:17
	And then he skipped over to the book of Psalm	1:34:19
	in the sixth chapter,	1:34:22
	and he read that God made man	1:34:24
	a little lower than the angels,	1:34:31
	and he crowned him with glory and honor.	1:34:35
	Well, what does that mean?	1:34:37
	I'm not a church person.	1:34:38
	I don't read the Bible.	1:34:39
	What are you saying, preacher?	1:34:41
	I don't know God intimately.	1:34:44
	This is foreign to me.	1:34:45
	What does it have to do with my education here at Duke?	1:34:46
	What does it have to do with my life?	1:34:51
	Well, it has everything to do with your life.	1:34:54
	Because in a real sense, it's not until you recognize	1:34:58
	that spark of divine	1:35:01
	in your fellow woman and man	1:35:03
	that you really have not started	1:35:08
	to live a true life.	1:35:11
-	[Congregation Member] Amen.	1:35:12
-	Because in a real sense,	1:35:14
	when you strip away everything that makes us different,	1:35:17
	at the core, at the foundation,	1:35:22
	the thing that makes this building be able to stand	1:35:25
	and not cave in	1:35:29
	is something that we have in common.	1:35:32
-	[Congregation Member] Amen.	1:35:35
-	And that thing is God.	1:35:36
	That thing, if you break it down,	1:35:41
	is humanness at its best.	1:35:45
	And so I say to you today,	1:35:52
	my brothers and sisters,	1:35:56
	if you're going to start living a true and meaningful life,	1:36:02
	then you're gonna have to start discovering first	1:36:08
	the divine spark in yourself.	1:36:12
-	[Congregation Member] Amen.	1:36:16
-	Because in a real sense,	1:36:17
	you cannot even tap in to anybody else's	1:36:20
	until you see your own.	1:36:25
	(congregation applauding)	1:36:26
	And so after you tap into it and you see it,	1:36:37
	then you've got to find a way	1:36:40
	to call it forth into life.	1:36:41
-	[Congregation Member] Amen.	1:36:45
-	That's why Martin Luther King was great.	1:36:47
	Not because he said "I have a dream."	1:36:51
	He was not a dreamer.	1:36:54
	Martin Luther King Jr.,	1:36:57
	although he captured in that speech	1:36:59
	the essence of the kingdom of God	1:37:03
	and articulated eloquently his dream,	1:37:05
	Martin Luther King Jr. was really one	1:37:10
	who lived out of that spark of divine that was in him,	1:37:13
	and he connected to the spark of divine that was in others.	1:37:19
	Whether they were Black, white, rich, poor,	1:37:23
	Jew, Gentile, Protestant, Catholic,	1:37:27
	he didn't care.	1:37:32
-	[Congregation Member] Amen.	1:37:34
-	Because he understood	1:37:35
	that we're all in the same boat.	1:37:38
	And that it doesn't matter whether I have a PhD degree,	1:37:44
	an intellectual astuteness.	1:37:49
	It doesn't matter that I come	1:37:52
	with a comfortable middle-class lifestyle.	1:37:54
-	[Congregation Member] Amen.	1:37:58
-	Because what really matters	1:38:02
	is the fact	1:38:07
	that I'm able	1:38:09
	to enjoy these accomplishments	1:38:11
	in comfort, in convenience,	1:38:15
	in good conscience, in peace.	1:38:20
	How can you sit on a PhD degree?	1:38:25
	How can you sit in a rich lifestyle?	1:38:29
	How can you sit in a majority race	1:38:34
	and feel comfortable	1:38:38
	when there's some other folks	1:38:41
	who are victims of circumstances	1:38:44
	not by their own creation,	1:38:47
	but by the mere fact	1:38:50
	that those who've been blessed with these benefits, like me,	1:38:52
	are sitting on my seat of apathy and complacency	1:38:58
	and egotism and elitism.	1:39:03
	How can I be comfortable?	1:39:06
	What is it gonna take	1:39:11
	to get you to move?	1:39:14
-	[Congregation Member] Amen.	1:39:16
-	You can't look to government.	1:39:18
	It's relevant.	1:39:23
	It's powerful,	1:39:25
	and in many ways, it dictates part of our lives.	1:39:26
	But you know government is limited.	1:39:34
-	[Congregation Member] Okay.	1:39:38
-	But even if you disagree with me,	1:39:41
	let me present this to you.	1:39:44
	When we form government,	1:39:46
	it said of, for, and by the people.	1:39:49
	(congregation applauding)	1:39:54
	Forgetting politicians for a moment,	1:39:58
	forgetting political special interest groups for a moment.	1:40:04
	People, that's you and you	1:40:10
	and me,	1:40:14
	them.	1:40:16
	(congregation laughing)
	That's us.	1:40:19
	And when Martin King challenged us	1:40:23
	to live out of the divine spark,	1:40:25
	he was not challenging just government.	1:40:30
	He was challenging the people.	1:40:34
	Because the people in a real sense	1:40:39
	are who keep government accountable.	1:40:44
-	Amen.	1:40:47
-	So true.
-	And if the government messes up,	1:40:48
	it's your fault and my fault.	1:40:52
	(congregation applauding)	1:40:54
	We have a responsibility	1:41:06
	to live out the true essence of who we are.	1:41:10
-	[Congregation Member] Amen.	1:41:12
-	Those divine beings	1:41:14
	that were created a little bit lower than the angels	1:41:18
	in the image of God.	1:41:22
	But what does that really mean?	1:41:25
	Well, if there's anything that I could say	1:41:32
	that really captures the essence	1:41:35
	of why we celebrate and honor a man	1:41:38
	who for some is on a page in history,	1:41:42
	who for others	1:41:46
	is a significant force in these times	1:41:49
	because what he said was so much more powerful	1:41:53
	than a bullet.	1:41:57
-	[Congregation Member] Amen.	1:41:59
-	If I had to say one thing about Martin Luther King Jr.,	1:42:00
	it was the fact that he taught us	1:42:04
	not by mere words,	1:42:08
	not by theorizing,	1:42:11
	not by analyzing,	1:42:14
	not by dissecting,	1:42:18
	not by refutation, argument,	1:42:21
	but he taught us by example	1:42:28
	a thing called unconditional love	1:42:33
	because really, when you're created in the image of God,	1:42:36
	the book says God is love.	1:42:39
-	[Congregation Member] Amen.	1:42:41
	And when you break that down,	1:42:43
	the book even says, "God so loved	1:42:44
	that he gave."	1:42:48
	And so out of the essence of unconditional love	1:42:50
	comes the word give.	1:42:53
-	[Congregation Member] Amen.	1:42:55
-	"He gave his only begotten."	1:42:57
	That means he gave the very best of himself.	1:43:00
	And it had no qualifications.	1:43:05
	It just says because he so loved,	1:43:06
	and it didn't say because we were deserving.	1:43:09
Congregation	Amen.	1:43:12
-	It didn't say because I'm required to.	1:43:15
	But it simply said just.	1:43:19
	Is that Anita Baker that says that?	1:43:23
	"I love you just because."	1:43:25
	(congregation laughing)	1:43:28
	That's the legacy and the reason we come together today.	1:43:34
	And it's the very thing that stirred up in him	1:43:41
	and caused him to be uncomfortable	1:43:46
	and got him off of a seat	1:43:49
	of complacency and apathy and indifference.	1:43:51
	Because the love in him just bubbled to the surface.	1:43:56
	He had so much that he wanted to give	1:44:00
	that he decided instead of paying lip service	1:44:05
	to all of this,	1:44:07
	I'm gonna pay life service.	1:44:09
	Are you paying life service	1:44:13
	to those things you say you care about?	1:44:15
	Oh, I want to live in a peaceful society.	1:44:19
	I wish we could stop the violence.	1:44:24
	(congregation applauding)	1:44:27
	What are we going to do about	1:44:34
	these welfare mothers?	1:44:38
	But love says what are we gonna do	1:44:44
	about these welfare children?	1:44:47
-	[Congregation Member] Amen.	1:44:50
-	For you see, in a real sense,	1:44:50
	two-thirds of those on welfare	1:44:52
	or the recipients of welfare,	1:44:55
	two-thirds of the recipients	1:44:58
	are children, not the mothers.	1:45:00
	And the easy part and the simple part	1:45:06
	says, "Let's throw them in an orphanage.	1:45:11
	That will solve our problem."	1:45:17
	What if somebody had thrown you in an orphanage?	1:45:26
	Because maybe they didn't want you,	1:45:31
	because maybe they didn't have the best of circumstances	1:45:34
	to raise you.	1:45:37
	They didn't have two cars and a nice fancy house.	1:45:39
	Pulling down six digits, three digits.	1:45:44
	Would you want to have been thrown in the orphanage,	1:45:51
	or did it really make a difference	1:45:55
	that you had enough love and attention	1:45:56
	from one or two individuals	1:46:01
	that made the difference in your life	1:46:04
	and didn't have to try to share too much of that	1:46:07
	with a bunch of children?	1:46:11
	Maybe you did grow up in a home with 13,	1:46:13
	but it's just something about	1:46:16
	having your own mother and father,	1:46:18
	that orphanages, although they may be good for some,	1:46:23
	can't cure.	1:46:29
	Unconditional love.	1:46:32
-	[Congregation Member] Amen.	1:46:33
-	Because, you see,	1:46:34
	in a real sense,	1:46:42
	there are many of you	1:46:48
	who have the good fortune of enjoying a lifestyle	1:46:51
	where you could perhaps take one of these little ones	1:46:56
	into your own home.	1:47:01
-	[Congregation Member] Amen.	1:47:03
-	That's unconditional love.	1:47:06
	And I'm not talking about someone who may look like you,	1:47:10
	but someone who may be a little bit different from you.	1:47:18
	That's the hard part that we don't want to consider	1:47:23
	in this country.	1:47:28
	We give it over to government.	1:47:29
	Government comes back with orphanages,	1:47:31
	and we say,	1:47:37
	"Phew, we finally found the answer."	1:47:39
	But I say really the answer is in each one of you.	1:47:43
	And if you don't rise up off of your own seats of apathy,	1:47:47
	then one day you're gonna find one of those children	1:47:52
	on your front doorstep.	1:47:55
-	[Congregation Member] Amen.	1:47:57
-	Because government can really only do so much.	1:47:59
	It's time for the people	1:48:03
	to get activated.	1:48:06
	That's what Martin Luther King Jr.	1:48:08
	challenged us to do because he said,	1:48:11
	"Progress does not roll in on wheels of inevitability,"	1:48:14
	but in a real sense it comes	1:48:20
	because of the activism of people.	1:48:22
	It's time to rise up, you all,	1:48:27
	and say enough is enough.	1:48:31
-	[Congregation Member] Amen.	1:48:34
-	We're tired of our children dying in the streets.	1:48:35
	We're tired of economic exploitation,	1:48:40
	rich getting richer, poor getting poorer,	1:48:44
	a permanent underclass.	1:48:47
	(congregation applauding)
	Yeah, we're tired of big-	1:48:53
	Excuse me, we're tired of	1:48:55
	wasted spending	1:48:58
	with our tax dollars,	1:49:03
	and we need to do something about it.	1:49:05
	But laws and policies	1:49:11
	can be passed	1:49:15
	to solve the simple problem,	1:49:17
	but there will be a bigger problem left	1:49:22
	when it's all said and done.	1:49:25
	When you build more prisons	1:49:29
	and you put more cops on the street,	1:49:32
	yes, you've locked up more criminals and violent people,	1:49:36
	but every day,	1:49:41
	there are children born into this society,	1:49:43
	not criminal,	1:49:47
	but we make them criminal	1:49:49
	by the circumstances that they have to grow up in.	1:49:52
	(congregation applauding)	1:49:55
	We welcome them into a boat lifestyle that has a hole in it,	1:50:02
	a hole of poverty and racism.	1:50:09
	And it breeds hatred	1:50:12
	and it breeds bitterness	1:50:14
	and it breeds anger,	1:50:16
	and it causes that child to grow up and explode.	1:50:19
-	Amen.	1:50:24
-	Amen.
-	And the tragedy is in the midst of it	1:50:26
	is that while some may be exploding on themselves	1:50:31
	and those immediately around them,	1:50:35
	one day, they may, in fact, explode on one of us.	1:50:38
	And so keep sitting down if you want.	1:50:44
-	[Congregation Member] Amen.	1:50:47
-	But there's work to be done.	1:50:48
	It's not over	1:50:51
	as long as you have health, life, and breath.	1:50:53
	Martin King Jr. says to you today through me,	1:50:59
	do not what's popular	1:51:06
	because maybe I'm a vain person.	1:51:11
	Do not what's safe	1:51:16
	because maybe I'm a coward.	1:51:19
	But do the right thing	1:51:22
	because conscience dictates to you,	1:51:28
	because unconditional love stirs in you,	1:51:32
	because the spark of the divine lives in you.	1:51:37
	Do the right thing!	1:51:41
-	[Congregation Member] Amen.	1:51:43
-	And if each and every one of us did that,	1:51:45
	we wouldn't even have to worry about	1:51:48
	whether or not	1:51:54
	our son or daughter	1:51:56
	is going to live to be 25.	1:51:59
	Martin King had a dream.	1:52:06
	It was a dream deeply rooted in the American Dream.	1:52:08
	But I say to you today	1:52:12
	that unless you allow	1:52:17
	the unconditional love	1:52:22
	to come out of your loins	1:52:25
	and to take on feet,	1:52:28
	then the dream will be arrested.	1:52:33
	And children all over this nation,	1:52:41
	Black, white,	1:52:45
	rich, poor,	1:52:47
	learned and even unlearned,	1:52:51
	will all be dreaming,	1:52:53
	what will my funeral be like?	1:52:57
	Will I be able	1:53:02
	to have a decent-paying job?	1:53:06
	Will I be able to grow up	1:53:14
	and feel good on the inside	1:53:19
	because I have a friend	1:53:24
	who looks different from me?	1:53:26
	I close with this story.	1:53:36
	There was a woman, since we always use men.	1:53:38
	(congregation laughing)	1:53:43
	She died.	1:53:46
	And she was visited by an angel.	1:53:53
	And that angel took this woman	1:53:58
	to one side of the universe to a kingdom.	1:53:59
	And there in that kingdom,	1:54:06
	this woman saw a huge banquet table	1:54:09
	extending the length of this hall.	1:54:13
	And she saw all of these fine delicacies of life.	1:54:19
	There was Italian and French	1:54:23
	and Russian and Chinese and Japanese	1:54:25
	and soul food.	1:54:29
	There was even vegetarian food.	1:54:31
	(congregation laughing)	1:54:36
	The food was so good, in fact,	1:54:40
	that your tongue would beat your brains out	1:54:41
	trying to get to it.	1:54:44
	(congregation laughing)	1:54:45
	And the woman noticed something a little strange.	1:54:47
	The people.	1:54:53
	There was little mobility.	1:54:57
	They were frail	1:55:00
	and there was no laughter and joy in the air.	1:55:01
	And the woman asked the angel,	1:55:04
	"Why, with all of this delicious food,	1:55:05
	the people seem to be so unhappy."	1:55:10
	And the angel said, "There's but one law	1:55:15
	in the entire kingdom."	1:55:17
	Well, the angel quickly took her off to another kingdom	1:55:22
	on the other side of the universe,	1:55:25
	and there she saw the same banquet table,	1:55:26
	but I have you to know the people were very different.	1:55:30
	There was mobility.	1:55:34
	There was forward-moving progress.	1:55:36
	There was laughter	1:55:39
	and there was joy and excitement in the air.	1:55:40
	And, of course, this puzzled the woman,	1:55:43
	and she asked the angel,	1:55:45
	"What is the difference in the two kingdoms?"	1:55:46
	And the angel said,	1:55:50
	"There is but one law	1:55:53
	in the entire universe."	1:55:55
	The woman was extremely puzzled by this time.	1:55:59
	And the angel noticed and said, "I'll tell you.	1:56:03
	The law is simply this.	1:56:07
	You must use the utensils	1:56:09
	provided by the management."	1:56:11
	And that was it.	1:56:15
	But these utensils, I have you to know,	1:56:17
	they were 10-feet long,	1:56:19
	10-feet forks, knives, and spoons.	1:56:22
	And angel went on to say, you see, in that first kingdom	1:56:26
	where the bodies were frail	1:56:29
	and there was no laughter and joy and no progress,	1:56:31
	these people were taking these 10-feet utensils	1:56:34
	and they were feeding themselves	1:56:37
	and they were literally starving to death.	1:56:39
	But I have you to know that in that second kingdom	1:56:42
	where there was forward-moving progress,	1:56:45
	where there was laughter and joy and peace,	1:56:47
	they were taking these utensils	1:56:49
	and reaching across the table,	1:56:51
	and they were feeding each other.	1:56:53
	(congregation applauding)	1:56:55
	And so whatever separates you from your fellow man or woman,	1:57:08
	whether it be race or creed or ideology or religion,	1:57:12
	I tell you today,	1:57:17
	you've got to reach across those superficial barriers	1:57:19
	and start feeding each other.	1:57:22
	(congregation applauding)	1:57:25
	And as you do that, your life will be a more fulfilled life,	1:57:35
	and when you pass on, people will say,	1:57:40
	there lived a man or woman, a boy or a girl	1:57:43
	who cared enough out of her or his own loins	1:57:48
	to reach across	1:57:53
	and feed another.	1:57:56
	Walk together, brothers and sisters.	1:58:00
	Don't you get weary.	1:58:03
	Struggle together, brothers and sisters.	1:58:05
	Don't you get weary.	1:58:08
	Pray together always, children.	1:58:10
	Don't you get weary,	1:58:14
	but hold on and keep hope alive	1:58:15
	as you're moving together, children.	1:58:18
	Don't you get weary.	1:58:21
	Work together, children,	1:58:24
	and love together, children.	1:58:27
	Don't get weary.	1:58:28
	Because one day there's gonna be a great camp meeting	1:58:30
	in our promised land.	1:58:33
	Peace.	1:58:35
	(congregation applauding)
-	I would take the liberty to call her Bernice	1:59:21
	for I'm a contemporary of your father's.	1:59:25
-	All right.	1:59:27
-	Her father so inspired so many of us.	1:59:29
	We did some spectacular things in small places.	1:59:35
	I can remember living in a small town,	1:59:39
	teaching school and pastoring a church.	1:59:43
	I was so inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.	1:59:47
	that I carried a petition around to desegregate the schools	1:59:51
	in the county in which I was teaching.	1:59:55
	And I survived.	1:59:58
	(congregation laughing)	2:00:00
	I had the privilege of sitting around a table	2:00:03
	with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Sr.,	2:00:07
	Dr. Marshall Shepard Jr. and Sr.,	2:00:13
	Dr. Thomas Kilgore, Dr. Gardner Taylor,	2:00:16
	and about 12 or 15 others	2:00:19
	when we got together the nucleus	2:00:23
	for the Progressive National Baptist Convention.	2:00:26
	It was my happy privilege	2:00:31
	to have shared with your mother a couple of years ago	2:00:35
	that she received a Stained Glass Window Award	2:00:39
	at Morehouse College,	2:00:42
	and I was inducted into the Morehouse Preacher Hall of Fame.	2:00:45
	And then about 18 months ago,	2:00:51
	the governor of the great state of North Carolina	2:00:56
	saw fit to make me Chairman	2:01:00
	of the Martin Luther King Commission	2:01:03
	for the state of North Carolina.	2:01:05
	And it is in that position that I'm here tonight	2:01:08
	and representing the Honorable James B. Hunt,	2:01:12
	and I present to you	2:01:17
	this Order of the Long Leaf Pine.	2:01:20
	And I read it,	2:01:23
	and I present it on behalf of the Honorable James B. Hunt.	2:01:26
	Reposing confidence in the integrity, learning,	2:01:32
	and zeal of the Reverend Bernice A. King,	2:01:36
	I do by these presents confer	2:01:39
	The Order of the Long Leaf Pine	2:01:43
	with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary,	2:01:45
	privileged to enjoy fully all rights	2:01:49
	granted to members of this exalted order,	2:01:54
	among which is the special privilege	2:01:57
	to propose the following North Carolina toast	2:02:02
	in select company	2:02:06
	anywhere in the free world.	2:02:08
	"Here's to the land of the long leaf pine,	2:02:12
	the summer land where the sun doth shine,	2:02:17
	where the meek grow strong, the weak grow strong	2:02:21
	and the strong grow great.	2:02:24
	Here's to Down Home,	2:02:28
	the Old North State."	2:02:30
	By the Governor, James B. Hunt Jr.,	2:02:32
	January 15th, 1995.	2:02:37
	God bless you.	2:02:44
	(congregation applauding)	2:02:45
-	I do wish to apologize.	2:02:56
	I have a 8:40 flight back to Atlanta,	2:02:58
	and so I'm going to have to leave.	2:03:00
	I usually try to stay after,	2:03:02
	but I'm been moving this week from place to place,	2:03:04
	and I ask for your continued prayers,	2:03:06
	and I will continue to keep you in my prayers.	2:03:09
	God bless you and I love each and every one of you.	2:03:11
	(congregation applauding)	2:03:14

-	Let us unite our hearts in prayer.	0:02
	Gracious God, we thank you for this day.	0:09
	We thank you for the opportunity where we come together	0:15
	in this place	0:19
	to remember and celebrate.	0:22
	We trust that as we remember, oh God,	0:26
	that you would give us a true understanding of remembrance,	0:31
	so that in the recollection of the past, oh God,	0:37
	we would be strengthened in the present and given hope	0:41
	and determination for the future.	0:45
	Today we celebrate those who gave their lives for the cause	0:50
	of justice and peace.	0:54
	We especially celebrate the life	0:58
	of our brother Martin Luther King Jr.	1:00
	Who gave his life for freedom	1:05
	because he understood that freedom	1:07
	is never voluntarily given to us.	1:10
	We pray for this land that continues	1:14
	to harbor racial prejudice and moral injustice.	1:17
	And in the words of our brother Martin,	1:23
	we pray that the dark clouds	1:25
	of racial prejudice will soon pass away,	1:27
	and that the deep fog	1:31
	of misunderstanding would be lifted	1:33
	from the fear drenched communities	1:35
	and that in not so a distant of time, tomorrow,	1:38
	the radiant stars of love and unity will shine	1:42
	over this great nation	1:46
	with all their soliciting beauty.	1:49
	We come confessing our own shortcomings.	1:53
	Forgive us Lord for the times when we have been complacent.	1:57
	Forgive us for our apathy.	2:04
	Forgive us when we rage war of violence through poverty,	2:08
	greed, and avarice.	2:14
	Today we pray that as we come,	2:19
	that you would receive our gifts	2:21
	as we rededicate ourselves to you.	2:25
	Accept our lives of and radiate them	2:29
	so that we can transform our lives into lives of services.	2:32
	So that as we serve each other,	2:37
	we can truly live your principle	2:39
	of loving you with all our hearts	2:42
	and our neighbors as ourself.	2:46
	Help us, we pray in your name, amen.	2:49
	Before Reverend Jameson Drake comes with the benediction,	2:57
	I would like to make one brief announcement	3:00
	and on behalf of Mr. Michael Hunt,	3:03
	the chair of this committee, we would like to express thanks	3:08
	to all of you for coming.	3:13
	We thank all those persons	3:16
	who have participated in this service	3:18
	to the members of the North Carolina School	3:21
	of Math and Science, to the modern Black Mass Choir,	3:24
	and to all you wonderful people	3:28
	who have joined us in this celebration, we say thank you.	3:30
	For those of you who would like to stay around for the time	3:35
	of fellowship, there will be a reception	3:38
	in the Divinity School in the alumni commons.	3:41
	Let's rise for the benediction.	3:45
	(heels stepping)	3:52
-	Let us pray.	3:58
	Almighty and gracious God, stir up our hearts.	4:02
	Let that spark of the divine that you have placed	4:08
	within us burst forth in flame.	4:11
	And so inflame our hearts with your love,	4:16
	that we may go forth from this place	4:21
	and the light shining within us may reach out to others	4:24
	and help kindle the flames that are within them.	4:29
	Open our eyes so that we may recognize all people	4:35
	as your children, beloved and precious,	4:40
	our dear brothers and sisters.	4:45
	And now we ask your blessing, oh God.	4:49
	May the blessing of God, of righteousness,	4:54
	the prince of peace	4:59
	and the Holy Spirit of love fill our hearts and minds	5:01
	and inspire our actions this day	5:07
	and forevermore, amen.	5:10
Audience	Amen.	5:13
	(organ music)	5:18
	(organ music)	5:33
	(organ music)	5:48
	(organ music)	6:03
	(organ music)	6:18
	(organ music)	6:33

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Bernice A. King - "I Have a Dream" Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Service (January 15, 1995)

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Sermon start time: 18:40. Sermon end time: 1:58:44.
Sermon start time: (Part 1) 1:19:44. Sermon end time: (Part 1) 1:58.
On MLK Jr Memorial Service, Bernice King, daughter of MLK preaches a message that urges the listeners to open their eyes to the reality that we are all in the same boat and to reach across any superficial difference and to care for one another (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)

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January 15, 1995

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King, Bernice A.

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Genesis 37:15-18

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