So that I would say that every summer we're going to have this kind of vigorous protest. The mood of the Negro community now is one of urgency, one of saying that we aren't going to wait. KING: Well, I would say this: we don't have long. WALLACE: How many summers like this do you imagine that we can expect? And, what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the economic plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. I think that we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard. And I contend that the cry of "black power" is, at bottom, a reaction to the reluctance of white power to make the kind of changes necessary to make justice a reality for the Negro. The vast majority of Negroes still feel that the best way to deal with the dilemma that we face in this country is through non-violent resistance, and I don't think this vocal group will be able to make a real dent in the Negro community in terms of swaying 22 million Negroes to this particular point of view. I happen to feel that this group represents a numerical minority. I will agree that there is a group in the Negro community advocating violence now. MIKE WALLACE: There's an increasingly vocal minority who disagree totally with your tactics, Dr. I think for the Negro to turn to violence would be both impractical and immoral. KING (interview): I will never change in my basic idea that non-violence is the most potent weapon available to the Negro in his struggle for freedom and justice. (speech): Now what I'm saying is this: I would like for all of us to believe in non-violence, but I'm here to say tonight that if every Negro in the United States turns against non-violence, I'm going to stand up as a lone voice and say, "This is the wrong way!" Militant leaders - like Stokely Carmichael and his call for "black power" - demanded that the movement part from Dr. Race riots were taking place across the country, and rifts in the civil rights movement were widening. King continued to stress the path of non-violence, despite a summer of violence. Three years later in 1966, in an interview with Mike Wallace, Dr. King said, must be through non-violence:Īgain and again we must rise to the majestic heights - of meeting physical force with soul force. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. King told the crowd assembled before the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. In one of the most stirring refrains of his speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" - but also an important turning point in the civil rights movement, when a quarter of a million people marched on Washington, D.C., to demand equality for African Americans. This weekend commemorates the 50th anniversary not just of one of the greatest speeches in American history - Rev.
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