Monday, January 15, 2007
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
Martin Luther King, 1963
Oh the time will come up
When the winds will stop
And the breeze will cease to be breathin'.
Like the stillness in the wind
'Fore the hurricane begins,
The hour when the ship comes in.
Oh the seas will split
And the ship will hit
And the sands on the shoreline will be shaking.
Then the tide will sound
And the wind will pound
And the morning will be breaking.
Oh the fishes will laugh
As they swim out of the path
And the seagulls they'll be smiling.
And the rocks on the sand
Will proudly stand,
The hour that the ship comes in.
And the words that are used
For to get the ship confused
Will not be understood as they're spoken.
For the chains of the sea
Will have busted in the night
And will be buried at the bottom of the ocean.
A song will lift
As the mainsail shifts
And the boat drifts on to the shoreline.
And the sun will respect
Every face on the deck,
The hour that the ship comes in.
Then the sands will roll
Out a carpet of gold
For your weary toes to be a-touchin'.
And the ship's wise men
Will remind you once again
That the whole wide world is watchin'.
Oh the foes will rise
With the sleep still in their eyes
And they'll jerk from their beds and think they're dreamin'.
But they'll pinch themselves and squeal
And know that it's for real,
The hour when the ship comes in.
Then they'll raise their hands,
Sayin' we'll meet all your demands,
But we'll shout from the bow your days are numbered.
And like Pharaoh's tribe,
They'll be drownded in the tide,
And like Goliath, they'll be conquered.
Dylan 1963
One man come in the name of love
One man come and go
One come he to justify
One man to overthrow
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
One man caught on a barbed wire fence
One man he resist
One man washed on an empty beach.
One man betrayed with a kiss
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
(nobody like you...)
Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
U2 1984
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9 comments:
Boy BB you've been busy, I've seen an addition each of the times I passed through.
Thanks for the full 8/28/63 speech, I think this is the first time I've heard it in it's entirety. It's hard for me to imagine this period of our in nation's history, I attended HS in the building which was the first integrated school in Virginia. My work is very intraged and my neighborhood is ethnic boiling pot.
I do remember registering voter once in the nineties and this young African-American lady brought her grandfather to register. He was very timid, she was very insistance, at first he could read, well I'm not allowed to give a literacy test & must read the questions and fill out the card, it went on like that, afterwards he could believe he was an actual registered voter. I do hope she followed all the way through and made him go to the polls so he could discover that he truly was a full citizen of the US with voting rights.
That always struck me, here two generations with huge different experience. My heart went out to that man for all the injustices done that made him so timid enven years after laws change and DOJ supervised to ensure equality. I'm glad the Lord gave him a "pushy" granddaughter.
The Smoking Gun ran this the week of Rosa Parks' death. What is meant to be a badge of shame is our memorial to people who sought justice.
Heroes Of The Civil Rights Movement
"And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing..."
But, not the homosexuals.
Is that what it's coming to now? Even Martin Luther King, Jr. is dissed? Golly.
bb
Certainly not dissing MLK. Just want to be clear about who is being excluded by those claiming the only right way, the only right truth, the only right life. MLK's are inspiring words yes, obviously written in a different context than exists today, but as long as some of God's children are refused at the table, they are just pretty words. It's one thing to talk the talk, another to walk the walk. If you have ears to hear, open them! Talk about living in a Cone of Silence. Golly.
God's children are not banned from the table, they are called to repeat, that's all. An action is not the same as genetics.
Talk about living in a Cone of Silence. Golly.
Alright then, I repeat!
Eddo:
RE:Alright then, I repeat!
*LOL*
You must have gone to the PB school of ‘evangelistic listening,' when you don't like something repeat your point louder.
No, Kevin! I was doing what anon says God's children are called to do: "to repeat". I left out the "sic". I do believe she meant to say repent, but I could not resist.
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