Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee 3 April 1968 Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about. It’s always good to have your closest friend and associate to say…
Category: Revolutionary Voices
Martin Luther King Jr: I Have a Dream
Steps of the Lincoln Memorial Washington D.C. August 28, 1963 Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came…
Martin Luther King Jr.: Praised in Words, Defamed by Deeds
Tony Cartalucci What a spectacle, the “first black president” of the United States celebrating Martin Luther King Jr Day. How far we’ve come, or so it would seem. And while King was primarily a civil rights activist seeking equality amongst men based on their humanity, not the countenance of their skin, and the fact that…
Martin Kuther King Jr.: A Time to Break the Silence
Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence By Rev. Martin Luther King Speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other…
MLK: Stop The Wars. Stop The Crimes Perpetrated By The Wealthy Elite
Washington’s Blog The Defense Department’s general counsel said that he believed Martin Luther King, Jr., might have supported the current wars: I believe that if Dr. King were alive today, he would recognize that we live in a complicated world, and that our nation’s military should not and cannot lay down its arms and leave…
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Tools for Freedom
Martin Luther King Jr. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Ethan Jacobs, J.D. Introduction: Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated April 4, 1968, shortly after he started speaking out…
The Goal Patrice Lumumba Sought To Achieve
Source: Patrice Lumumba, The Truth about a Monstrous Crime of the Colonialists, Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1961, pp 105-115. Written: by N. KHOKHLOV, Izvestia Special Correspondent Transcribed: by Thomas Schmidt. The whole of mankind now sees the Belgian colonialists as vicious plunderers. The myth that the former Belgian Congo was a model colony has…
Amilcar Cabral: National Liberation and Culture
This text was originally delivered on February 20, 1970; as part of the Eduardo Mondlane (1) Memorial Lecture Series at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, under the auspices of The Program of Eastern African Studies. It was translated from the French by Maureen Webster. When Goebbels, the brain behind Nazi propaganda, heard culture being discussed,…
Amilcar Cabral: The Weapon of Theory
Amilcar Cabral 1966 The Weapon of Theory PDF Address delivered to the first Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America held in Havana in January, 1966. If any of us came to Cuba with doubts in our mind about the solidity, strength, maturity and vitality of the Cuban Revolution, these doubts…
Collected Speeches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba
(1958) Patrice Lumumba, “Speech at Accra” On December 11, 1958, 34 year old Patrice Lumumba, president of the Congolese National Movement, spoke at the Assembly of African Peoples, an international Pan African Conference sponsored by Kwame Nkrumah, the Prime Minister of newly independent Ghana.* His remarks appear below.* Two years later Lumumba would become the…
Asia, Africa and Latin America: The Tide of the People’s Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Struggle is Irresistible
Asia, Africa and Latin America The Tide of the People’s Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Struggle is Irresistible [This article is reprinted from Peking Review, #4, Jan. 21, 1966, pp. 16-18.] THE First Afro-Asian-Latin American Peoples’ Solidarity Conference came to a successful conclusion in Havana on January 15. It adopted a resolution, firmly supporting the Vietnamese people’s struggle…
Amilcar Cabral: Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories…
Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children. We should recognize as a matter of conscience that there have…
