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 --> 00:39.979 this battle by himself. In many cases, 00:39.990 --> 00:42.157 Martin was better off than the rest of 00:42.157 --> 00:43.934 us because we were out there by 00:43.934 --> 00:45.657 ourselves. We went through it. 00:49.259 --> 00:52.950 - Somewhere I read of the freedom of 00:52.959 --> 00:56.229 assembly. Somewhere I read of the 00:56.240 --> 01:00.110 freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of 01:00.119 --> 01:03.659 the freedom of press. Somewhere I read 01:04.510 --> 01:07.089 that the greatness of America is the right 01:07.099 --> 01:09.765 to protest for rights. 01:09.765 --> 01:11.534 (crowd cheering) 01:13.419 --> 01:15.363 - Because I had to repeat the eighth 01:15.363 --> 01:17.440 grade when I got drafted at 18, 01:19.209 --> 01:21.550 I was in the 11th grade instead of having 01:21.559 --> 01:22.726 finished high school. 01:25.730 --> 01:27.730 And the people who were drafting me 01:27.730 --> 01:30.230 didn't care nothing about all of that. They 01:30.239 --> 01:32.139 just drafted me. 01:34.319 --> 01:36.819 You in the Marines. That's how I got 01:36.830 --> 01:40.239 in the Marines. Caught the bus, put us on 01:40.250 --> 01:43.250 the bus, and sent us to Montford Point. And 01:43.260 --> 01:45.593 that's how I got to be a Montford Pointer. 01:46.449 --> 01:50.449 1944. They taught me some things. 01:50.459 --> 01:52.681 But one of the things they taught me was to 01:52.681 --> 01:55.080 fight. I can appreciate the Corps for 01:55.089 --> 01:58.790 that. I don't appreciate the Corps for 01:58.800 --> 02:01.709 the discrimination it placed on me. 02:02.330 --> 02:05.819 But it was that discrimination that 02:05.830 --> 02:11.179 renewed my own commitment to the struggle. 02:12.035 --> 02:15.910 - [King Jr] In your life's blueprint should be a deep 02:15.919 --> 02:19.850 belief in your own dignity, your 02:19.860 --> 02:23.759 own worth and your own somebodyness. Don't allow 02:23.770 --> 02:29.391 anybody to make you feel that you are nobody. 02:30.544 --> 02:35.210 - We was not supposed to be fighting outfits but a couple of 02:35.220 --> 02:39.199 places where we were on 02:39.210 --> 02:42.330 Guam and on Saipan, 02:44.020 --> 02:47.449 the Japanese broke through and 02:47.460 --> 02:50.850 everybody became a fighter. - We've got 02:50.860 --> 02:54.610 some difficult days ahead but it 02:54.619 --> 02:56.508 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 --> 03:13.539 - And I was in Memphis when Martin was killed. 03:15.250 --> 03:17.320 Oh that was one sad day. 03:20.270 --> 03:22.326 Believe it or not, I cry about it 03:22.326 --> 03:26.279 now. Martin was in 306 03:26.289 --> 03:29.550 at the Lorraine Hotel 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 --> 03:52.789 - [King Jr] If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill, be a scrub in 03:52.800 --> 03:56.380 the valley. But be the best little scrub 03:56.389 --> 03:58.929 on the side of the real. Be a bush 03:58.940 --> 04:01.350 if you can't be a tree. If you can't be 04:01.360 --> 04:04.300 a highway, just be a trail. If you 04:04.309 --> 04:07.320 can't be the sun, be a star. For it 04:07.330 --> 04:10.470 isn't by size that you win or you fail, 04:10.479 --> 04:14.240 be the best of whatever you are you.