WEBVTT 00:00.009 --> 00:03.299 - [Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.] God loves all of his children and 00:03.309 --> 00:06.050 that all men are made in his image 00:06.059 --> 00:08.789 and that, figuratively speaking, every 00:08.800 --> 00:11.590 man, from a bass black to a treble white, 00:11.600 --> 00:13.619 is significant on God's keyboard. 00:14.436 --> 00:16.205 (people cheering) 00:16.205 --> 00:18.327 (soulful piano music) 00:18.969 --> 00:21.989 - I never, never, never 00:23.200 --> 00:25.739 accepted being treated less than 00:25.750 --> 00:29.329 anybody else. I still don't. 00:30.879 --> 00:33.669 I still don't. That's why I tell folk 00:33.680 --> 00:36.340 all of the time, Martin didn't fight 00:36.349 --> 00:38.202 this battle by himself. 00:39.266 --> 00:41.870 In many cases, Martin was better off than the rest of us 00:41.870 --> 00:44.083 because we were out there by ourselves. 00:44.083 --> 00:45.482 We went through it. 00:49.259 --> 00:51.141 - Somewhere, I read 00:51.141 --> 00:53.775 of the freedom of assembly. 00:53.775 --> 00:55.632 Somewhere, I read 00:55.632 --> 00:57.934 of the freedom of speech. 00:57.934 --> 00:59.593 Somewhere, I read 00:59.593 --> 01:01.815 of the freedom of press. 01:01.815 --> 01:03.921 Somewhere, I read 01:03.921 --> 01:06.297 that the greatness of America 01:06.297 --> 01:09.436 is the right to protest for rights. 01:09.765 --> 01:11.534 (crowd cheering) 01:13.419 --> 01:15.524 - But because I had to repeat the eighth grade 01:15.524 --> 01:17.592 when I got drafted at 18, 01:19.209 --> 01:22.589 I was in the 11th grade instead of having finished high school. 01:25.730 --> 01:27.730 And the people who were drafting me 01:27.730 --> 01:29.592 didn't care nothing about all of that. 01:29.592 --> 01:31.547 They just drafted me. 01:34.319 --> 01:35.798 You in the Marines. 01:35.798 --> 01:37.605 That's how I got in the Marines. 01:37.605 --> 01:39.317 Caught the bus. 01:39.317 --> 01:43.257 Put us on a bus and sent us to Montford Point. 01:43.257 --> 01:45.422 And that's how I got to be a Montford Pointer. 01:46.449 --> 01:49.028 1944. 01:49.028 --> 01:50.579 They taught me some things. 01:50.579 --> 01:52.844 But one of the things they taught me was to fight. 01:52.844 --> 01:55.540 I can appreciate the Corps for that. 01:57.335 --> 01:59.235 I don't appreciate the Corps for the 01:59.235 --> 02:01.761 discrimination it placed on me. 02:02.330 --> 02:04.461 But it was that discrimination 02:05.334 --> 02:07.374 that renewed 02:07.374 --> 02:09.694 my own commitment 02:09.694 --> 02:11.290 to the struggle. 02:12.035 --> 02:15.910 - [King Jr] In your life's blueprint should be a deep 02:15.919 --> 02:19.243 belief in your own dignity, 02:19.243 --> 02:20.987 your own worth, 02:20.987 --> 02:23.068 and your own somebodyness. 02:23.068 --> 02:26.449 Don't allow anybody to make you feel 02:26.449 --> 02:29.359 that you are nobody. 02:30.544 --> 02:32.723 - We was not supposed to be fighting outfits, 02:34.905 --> 02:37.018 but a couple places where we were, 02:38.880 --> 02:40.883 on Guam 02:40.883 --> 02:42.870 and on Saipan, 02:44.020 --> 02:46.224 the Japanese broke through 02:47.092 --> 02:49.351 and everybody became a fighter. 02:50.380 --> 02:52.736 - We've got some difficult days ahead, 02:54.505 --> 02:56.367 but it really doesn't matter with me now, 02:56.910 --> 02:59.437 because I've been to the mountaintop. 02:59.437 --> 03:01.285 (crowd cheering) 03:01.285 --> 03:03.207 And I don't mind. 03:06.070 --> 03:09.170 Like anybody, I would like to live. 03:09.685 --> 03:11.345 - And I was in 03:11.345 --> 03:13.716 Memphis when Martin was killed. 03:15.250 --> 03:17.320 Oh that was one sad day. 03:20.270 --> 03:22.580 Believe it or not, I cry about it now. 03:24.503 --> 03:27.630 Martin was in 306 at the Lorraine Hotel 03:27.630 --> 03:29.747 and I was in 308. 03:32.350 --> 03:35.130 When Martin was shot, I was in my room. 03:38.869 --> 03:41.940 What I tell folks all of the time, 03:43.169 --> 03:45.779 all of the folk in the struggle wasn't black. 03:47.347 --> 03:48.699 Some were white. 03:49.269 --> 03:51.918 - [King Jr] If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill, 03:51.918 --> 03:53.996 be a scrub in the valley. 03:54.554 --> 03:56.642 But be the best little scrub 03:56.642 --> 03:58.451 on the side of the real. 03:58.451 --> 04:00.700 Be a bush if you can't be a tree. 04:00.700 --> 04:03.946 If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. 04:03.946 --> 04:06.908 If you can't be the sun, be a star. 04:06.908 --> 04:08.822 For it isn't by size 04:08.822 --> 04:10.522 that you win or you fail, 04:10.522 --> 04:13.098 be the best of whatever you are.