remember reading because you know, i remember thinking dr. king was a great civil rights leader, then, i read the text of the, i want to use the term, his sermon. his speeches were really sermons. i remember doing a project and read dozens and dozens. what amazed me is that he didn t want to be known as a civil rights leader. he wanted to be known as a preacher of the gospel. yes. yet that is not talked about all that much today because i guess it s politically incorrect to mention it. i brought one of his prayer books with me. i m just going to read one line from his own prayer. he asked god to grant us visions to lift us from worldiness and sin through jesus christ we pray, amen that. is the heart of the man. you re saying when you read his sermons and listen to his
sermons or read his prayers you can get the heart of the man that found the courage to love his neighbors and enemies and to face everything that came towards him with love and he really did. that was the way he was. thank you for being here and i want to say thanks to the family for putting together a magnificent become of tribute. dr. alveda king, god bless you and thanks for joining us. thank you. well, so the president took his oath for the second term today. on monday, he s going to do so again in the public ceremony on the steps of capitol hill as we anticipate, the president s second inaugural address, let s take a look back and see a memorable quote from president reagan, noted for dozens of great quotes. his first as president came in 1981. insent crisis, government is not the solution
greatness of america is the right to protest for rights. mike: dr. king protested until the day he died by an assassin s bullet in memphis. his voice may have been silenced, but his message lives on 45 years later. joining us now from atlanta is dr. martin luther king, jr. s niece, my good friend alvita king. hello, governor huckabee. it s good to be here and to the audience, hello. mike: well, you know, when i hear the words of your uncle, i am deeply, emotionally moved because i remember in my lifetime i ve seen this incredible change in our country because of his dream and his willingness to put his life on the line to see it happen. as a member of the family, i want you to speak to, as you see america today, an african-american president inaugurated for the second
larry correia, thank you. it s been years since dr. martin luther king gave the i have a dream speech. and his niece, alvita king reflects on her uncle s legacy here in
house republican go to the house right at the center of the capitol, in the rotunda, is a copy of the mag na carta, 1215, almost 800, 900 years ago, in 1215, the nobles said to the king, you cannot spend money that we don t approve raising and the king was in a weak position and said, yes. and all of the legislative branch rose out of that historic moment and the legislature has every right to say we re not going to pass and we re not going to give you the money and because of the situation they find themselves in, could have a devastating effect of april 1st not passing certain things. what if they decided, for example, not to fully fund the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms and said, no, we re not going to fundamentally implement them, it would be