Nation reflecting on one of the greatest moments in our history. And a Guiding Light for our future. The faces of those carrying the torch lit by dr. Martin luther king jr. Were back today, retraitsing the steps taken by a quarter million americans seeking equality and jobs. Its also today where the first africanamerican president , arguably the personification of dr. Kings dream addressed the crowd in the shadow of greatness. Dr. Kings speech was incredibly just under 17 minutes long. 1651 words, he was only 34 years old. A speech delivered in a different age at the time carried by just a few Networks Without the power of the internet or twitter or facebook to help spread that message. It is a speech that the king family closely protects, making sure to preserve the legacy of an iconic leader. Now, 50 years later, on this historic anniversary as we remember that Pivotal Moment msnbc has the opportunity to share those remarks in their entirety. I am happy to join with you today in what
versus the foreign how we pay attention as you said, ed, to what we have here, the resources needed here. can we take care of home without paying, you know, obesence again to a war machinery that would again have us attack. the conservatives don t mind here mr. obama, you know, dropping a bomb in syria but don t want to deploy diplomacy and don t want to look at other preventive of measures that might be deployed before having to go to that route. joy, what would dr. king say about going to syria? it s interesting some of the clips that you played because i m here at the commemoration of the march on washington. and at that time, in the early 1960s, the momentum toward war was also happening including in congress at the same time we were contemplating civil rights and voting rights and all those other things. and you had a passivist in russ tin that organize this had march on washington. then we had going forward to
and the russians, they won t mind a bit. look, this is a civil war. and it s really sad ta people are dying. but it does not warrant the united states involvement in international intervention. we have been down this road before and it didn t work out real well. cooler heeds need to prevail here. joining me now on our panel is washington post e.j. dionne, michael eric dyson and the grio s joy reid. e.j., it seems to me that we have conflicting feelings when it comes to moral obligations. how is this one more important than the other unwithes that i mentioned? first of all, ed, it s great to have you back on weekdays. a lot of people are cheering. secondly, i m glad you went after that word surgical because no matter how you feel about syria, i just don t like the word surgical applied to war. it seems war is the opposite of surgical. i think the president has a
they melted hearts. we must keep the faith and keep our eyes on the prize. that was the spirit of young people like john lewis brought to that day. and america is that promised land for all of us. in the face of violence, they stood up and sat in. because they kept marching. america changed. and yes, eventually the white house changed. free at last, free at last. thank god almighty, we are free at last. good to have you with us tonight. thanks for watching. i m ed schultz. the ed show. we re here monday through friday 5:00 eastern. today was a big day of emotion for this country. a day of record, a day of reflection. to me, you know what, i am so
let s bring in professor caroline heldman, and joan walsh. i have to give republicans a lot of credit. they do a hell of a job of distorting the facts and hood winking everybody that they didn t start this issue. joan walsh, how did it play last night for the republicans in the debate? first of all, ed, where do they find these people ? they boo a gay soldier protecting us in iraq. they are booing birth control. i sit here and i cannot believe that they are acting as though they didn t want to have anything to do with the issue of birth control. these mean old democrats brought it up to trick them when they are the ones making outrageous