【正文】 d received a visit and a letter from the Governor of New York, but I39。s the end of you.　　It came out in the New York Times the next morning, that if I had merely sneezed, I would have died. Well, about four days later, they allowed me, after the operation, after my chest had been opened, and the blade had been taken out, to move around in the wheel chair in the hospital. They allowed me to read some of the mail that came in, and from all over the states and the world, kind letters came in. I read a few, but one of them I will never forget. I had received one from the President and the VicePresident. I39。s the question.　　Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation. And I want to thank God, once more, for allowing me to be here with you.　　You know, several years ago, I was in New York City autographing the first book that I had written. And while sitting there autographing books, a demented black woman came up. The only question I heard from her was, Are you Martin Luther King? And I was looking down writing, and I said, Yes. And the next minute I felt something beating on my chest. Before I knew it I had been stabbed by this demented woman. I was rushed to Harlem Hospital. It was a dark Saturday afternoon. And that blade had gone through, and the Xrays revealed that the tip of the blade was on the edge of my aorta, the main artery. And once that39。s possible that they felt that the man on the ground was merely faking. And he was acting like he had been robbed and hurt, in order to seize them over there, lure them there for quick and easy seizure. And so the first question that the priest asked the first question that the Levite asked was, If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me? But then the Good Samaritan came by. And he reversed the question: If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?　　That39。s a dangerous road. In the days of Jesus it came to be known as the Bloody Pass. And you know, it39。s really conducive for ambushing. You start out in Jerusalem, which is about 1200 miles or rather 1200 feet above sea level. And by the time you get down to Jericho, fifteen or twenty minutes later, you39。s possible that those men were afraid. You see, the Jericho road is a dangerous road. I remember when Mrs. King and I were first in Jerusalem. We rented a car and drove from Jerusalem down to Jericho. And as soon as we got on that road, I said to my wife, I can see why Jesus used this as the setting for his parable. It39。s a possibility. Maybe they felt that it was better to deal with the problem from the causal root, rather than to get bogged down with an individual effect.　　But I39。t stop. At times we say they were busy going to a church meeting, an ecclesiastical gathering, and they had to get on down to Jerusalem so they wouldn39。ve got to see it through. And when we have our march, you need to be there. If it means leaving work, if it means leaving school be there. Be concerned about your brother. You may not be on strike. But either we go up together, or we go down together.　　Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness. One day a man came to Jesus, and he wanted to raise some questions about some vital matters of life. At points he wanted to trick Jesus, and show him that he knew a little more than Jesus knew and throw him off base....Now that question could have easily ended up in a philosophical and theological debate. But Jesus immediately pulled that question from midair, and placed it on a dangerous curve between Jerusalem and Jericho. And he talked about a certain man, who fell among thieves. You remember that a Levite and a priest passed by on the other side. They didn39。t do ourselves at SCLC. Judge Hooks and others will tell you that we have an account here in the savings and loan association from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. We are telling you to follow what we are doing. Put your money there. You have six or seven black insurance panies here in the city of Memphis. Take out your insurance there. We want to have an insurancein.　　Now these are some practical things that we can do. We begin the process of building a greater economic base. And at the same time, we are putting pressure where it really hurts. I ask you to follow through here.　　Now, let me say as I move to my conclusion that we39。ve got to strengthen black institutions. I call upon you to take your money out of the banks downtown and deposit your money in TriState Bank. We want a bankin movement in Memphis. Go by the savings and loan association. I39。t been fair in their hiring policies。s bread. As Jesse Jackson has said, up to now, only the garbage men have been feeling pain。ve e by here to ask you to make the first item on your agenda fair treatment, where God39。t need any Molotov cocktails. We just need to go around to these stores, and to these massive industries in our country, and say, God sent us by here, to say to you that you39。t have to curse and go around acting bad with our words. We don39。s power right there, if we know how to pool it.　　We don39。s preacher must talk about the new New York, the new Atlanta, the new Philadelphia, the new Los Angeles, the new Memphis, Tennessee. This is what we have to do.　　Now the other thing we39。t eat three square meals a day. It39。s all right to talk about long white robes over yonder, in all of its symbolism. But ultimately people want some suits and dresses and shoes to wear down here! It39。t concerned about anything but themselves. And I39。s still going on, fighting for the rights of his people. Reverend Ralph Jackson, Billy Kiles。 he39。 he39。s a marvelous picture. Who is it that is supposed to articulate the longings and aspirations of the people more than the preacher? Somehow the preacher must have a kind of fire sh