【正文】 as they discussed the great and eternal issues of I wouldn39。t stop would go on, even to the great heyday of the Roman I would see developments around there, through various emperors and I wouldn39。t stop would even e up to the day of the Renaissance, and get a quick picture of all that the Renaissance did for the cultural and aesthetic life of I wouldn39。t stop would even go by the way that the man for whom I am named had his I would watch Martin Luther as he tacked his ninetyfive theses on the door at the church of I wouldn39。t stop would e on up even to 1863, and watch a vacillating President by the name of Abraham Lincoln finally e to the conclusion that he had to sign the Emancipation I wouldn39。t stop would even e up to the early thirties, and see a man grappling with the problems of the bankruptcy of his e with an eloquent cry that we have nothing to fear but ”fear itself.“ But I wouldn39。t stop enough, I would turn to the Almighty, and say, ”If you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the 20th century, I will be happy.“ Now that39。s a strange statement to make, because the world is all messed nation is is in the land。confusion all 39。s a strange I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the I see God working in this period of the twentieth century in a way that men, in some strange way, are is happening in our masses of people are rising wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa。Nairobi, Kenya。Accra, Ghana。New York City。Atlanta, Georgia。Jackson, Mississippi。or Memphis, Tennesseethe cry is always the same: ”We want to be free.“And another reason that I39。m happy to live in this period is that we have been forced to a point where we are going to have to grapple with the problems that men have been trying to grapple with through history, but the demands didn39。t force them to do demands that we grapple with , for years now, have been talking about war and now, no longer can they just talk about is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world。it39。s nonviolence or is where we are also in the human rights revolution, if something isn39。t done, and done in a hurry, to bring the colored peoples of the world out of their long years of poverty, their long years of hurt and neglect, the whole world is , I39。m just happy that God has allowed me to live in this period to see what is I39。m happy that He39。s allowed me to be in can rememberI can remember when Negroes were just going around as Ralph has said, so often, scratchingwhere they didn39。t itch, and laughing when they were not that day is all mean business now, and we are determined to gain our rightful place in God39。s that39。s all this whole thing is aren39。t engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with are saying that we are determined to be are determined to be are sayingWe are saying that we are God39。s that we are God39。s children, we don39。t have to live like we are forced to , what does all of this mean in this great period of history? It means that we39。ve got to stay 39。ve got to stay together and maintain know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite, favorite formula for doing was that? He kept the slaves fighting among whenever the slaves get together, something happens in Pharaoh39。s court, and he cannot hold the slaves in the slaves get together, that39。s the beginning of getting out of let us maintain , let us keep the issues where they issue is issue is the refusal of Memphis to be fair and honest in its dealings with its public servants, who happen to be sanitation , we39。ve got to keep attention on 39。s always the problem with a little know what happened the other day, and the press dealt only with the read the very seldom got around to mentioning the fact that one thousand, three hundred sanitation workers are on strike, and that Memphis is not being fair to them, and that Mayor Loeb is in dire need of a didn39。t get around to we39。re going to march again, and we39。ve got to march again, in order to put the issue where it is supposed to beand force everybody to see that there are thirteen hundred of God39。s children here suffering, sometimes going hungry, going through dark and dreary nights wondering how this thing is going to e 39。s the we39。ve got to say to the nation: We know how it39。s ing when people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of aren39。t going to let any mace stop are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces。they don39。t know what to 39。ve seen them so remember in Birmingham, Alabama, when we were in that majestic struggle there, we would move out of the 16th Street Baptist Church day after day。by the hundreds we would move Bull Connor would tell them to send the dogs forth, and they did e。but we just went before the dogs singing, ”Ain39。t gonna let nobody turn me around.“Bull Connor next would say, ”Turn the fire hoses on.“ And as I said to you the other night, Bull Connor didn39。t know knew a kind of physics that somehow didn39。t relate to the transphysics that we knew that was the fact that there was a certain kind of fire that no water could put we went before the fire hoses。we had known we were Baptist or some other denominations, we had been we were Methodist, and some others, we had been sprinkled, but we knew couldn39。t stop we just went on before the dogs and we would look at them。and we39。d go on before the water hoses and we would look at it, and we39。d just go on singing ”O(jiān)ver my headI see freedom in the air.“ And then we would be thrown in the paddy wagons, and sometimes we were stacked in there like sardines in a they would throw us in, and old Bull would say, ”Take 39。em off,“ and they did。and we would just go in the paddy wagon singing, ”We Shall Overe.“ And every now and then w