Happy Friday everyone, today we wrap up a little four part series on race, Pastor John

you've been talking about race in America over the last 50 years and often you speak

with serious appreciation and even admiration for Martin Luther King Jr.

Is there anything that stands out to you above other things as to what moved you most

about this man's life?

Yes and what I want to do Tony is just let the listener today hear King speak what for me

was the most moving thing he ever said or ever wrote. A lot of people think the most moving thing

he ever said was the I have a dream speech on the Washington Mall. Well that was powerful and

it's famous but it's not the most moving thing for this racist sinner of the 1950s and

66 it's not the most powerful thing he ever said the most powerful thing he ever wrote were

I'll read this paragraph from letters letter from a Birmingham jail he wrote this 1963

April 16 after he was in jail and accused of being precipitous and impatient in making

demands in a in a peaceful nonviolent way this is what he wrote and if you were like me and you

grew up in this this would probably have the same effect on you that it did on me and maybe it

will this is what he said perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the sting the darts

of segregation to say wait but when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will

and drown your sisters and brothers at whim when you have seen hate filled policemen curse kick and

even kill your black brothers and sisters when you see the vast majority of your 20 million

Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society

when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to

your six-year-old daughter why she cannot go to the public amusement park that has just been

advertised on television and see tears welling up in her eyes when she's told that fun town is

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