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That we've got to be careful that we don't have consecrations without recommitment, remembrances without revival. oftentimes we name these speeches like "i have a dream." that was 17 minutes about the nightmare before he talked about the dream. we say the mountaintop speech, but before that he was talking about racism. he actually said the nation is sick. when we look at today, 50 years later, we have a voting rights act that's been gutted for 1,745 days the congress has refused to fix it. that's systemic racism. when you add to that 140 million are working poor people in this country, 14 mill...

Prophet if you just remember the prophet without having a revival of the movement that the prophet stood for. >> reverend dr. william barber joins me now. dr. barber, thank you so much. you gave a powerful speech this morning in memphis. it was a call to action. you honored dr. king's last speech on the eve of his assassination by saying nothing would be more tragic than to turn back now. tell me about that. >> well, don, i really believe that we've got to be careful that we don't have consecrations without recommitment, remembrances without revival. oftentimes we name these speeches like "i h...

I don't mind. >> andrew young took the mountaintop speech in stride. >> the reason we weren't upset about it was that was about the third or fourth time i had heard him give that speech, and they were all times when it was dangerous. and whenever the situation was pretty tense, one of the ways he relieved himself was talking about it. and he did that in private, too. he said, well, i might not ever see it, but this movement will succeed. >> i'm happy tonight. i'm not worried about anything! i'm not fearing any man! mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord! >> we had to help him ...

>> he knew he was. always said, "i'll never live to be 40." he was 39. >> i don't know what will happen now. we've got some difficult days ahead. but it really doesn't matter with me now, because i've been to the mountaintop. i don't mind. >> andrew young took the mountaintop speech in stride. >> the reason we weren't upset about it was that was about the third or fourth time i had heard him give that speech, and they were all times when it was dangerous. and whenever the situation was pretty tense, one of the ways he relieved himself was talking about it. and he did that in private, too. he s...

We've got some difficult days ahead. but it really doesn't matter with me now, because i've been to the mountaintop. i don't mind. >> andrew young took the mountaintop speech in stride. >> the reason we weren't upset about it was that was about the third or fourth time i had heard him give that speech, and they were all times when it was dangerous. and whenever the situation was pretty tense, one of the ways he relieved himself was talking about it. and he did that in private, too. he said, well, i might not ever see it, but this movement will succeed. >> i'm happy tonight. i'm not worried abo...