Democracy Now! 2026-01-19 Monday
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🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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MLK Day Special: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:16.7 | I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos |
| 0:23.1 | without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today, |
| 0:30.5 | my own government. |
| 0:32.2 | Today, a democracy now special. |
| 0:34.4 | Dr. Martin Luther King, in his own words. |
| 0:37.0 | We hear excerpts of two historic speeches, |
| 0:40.5 | beyond Vietnam, and I've been to the Mountain Top from the night before he was assassinated |
| 0:45.7 | in 1968. We've got some difficult days ahead, but it really doesn't matter with me now, |
| 0:53.6 | because I've been to the mountain top |
| 0:56.2 | I don't know |
| 0:59.3 | Like anybody |
| 1:04.3 | I would like to live |
| 1:05.7 | A long life |
| 1:08.4 | Longevity |
| 1:09.2 | Has its place. |
| 1:11.6 | But I'm not concerned about that now. |
| 1:15.6 | I just want to do God's will. |
| 1:18.6 | And he's allowed me to go up to the mountain. |
| 1:23.6 | And I've looked over and I've seen the promise land. |
| 1:31.2 | Dr. Martin Luther King for the hour coming up. |
| 1:40.6 | This is Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the Warren Peace Report. |
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