tentative from me for now, now it s time to the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence. good evening rachel, we ve heard many speeches on this day, and martin luther king s birthday over the years since his assassination. i heard when today for the first time, that was delivered in 1983. and it is just the most extraordinary, 60 minutes long, we re gonna show some of it later in this hour, the most extraordinary speech about martin luther king, i ve ever heard, it was delivered by then funniest man in the world, richard pryor. in washington d.c.. and thanks to c-span, which is something we say all the time, thanks to c-span, it is been preserved, and we must show some of it later, it s like nothing you ve ever seen on this day, i have no memory of it, i don t member seeing it, know remember hearing about it. it wasn t in a news cycle that day, that s for sure. that is fantastic i did not know this existed. not only have not heard it before, they know exi
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president lyndon johnson s cooperation and support for any more legislation. when he became the most eloquent anti war protester in america. he stood at the lincoln memorial that day in august of 63, and you said that i had a dream. did that dream envision, then you could see a war in asia? preventing for the black society, is that what you think had to be done? no, i did not imagine that. i must confess that that period was a great period of hope for me. i m sure that many others all across the nation, the black man who had about lost hope. they saw a solid decade of progress, in the south. and in 1954, which was
profound questions about our total society. in other words, they re saying that there must be a restructuring of the architecture our society. we re values are concerned, and with this, i would agree with. of course for integration, i think that we can all find our whole nation something, because there are three evils in our nation, not only racism. the economic exploitation of poverty would be one. and then militarism. i think that in a sense, and in a very real sense, these three are tied inextricably together, you cannot get rid of one without the other. militarism, martin luther king knew that opposing the vietnam war would make it much more difficult for him to get president lyndon johnson s cooperation and support for any more legislation. when he became the most eloquent anti war protester in america. he stood at the lincoln