This was actually 1956 and MLK was 27 years old. I never cease to be amazed at the wisdom of his messages and the authoritativeness of his delivery, since everything we've ever heard from him occurred before he was killed at age 39. A truly special human being.

I come back to this every few years as a touch stone. It was delivered the year I was born. I wish we had listened

💕Martin Luther King Jr.💕 Was and Still is a Powerful BLACK Man in Death 🙏🏽 He will NEVER be Forgotten. You killed the Man but You will NOT kill His Dream 🙏🏽 The World Loves You ❤ Very Much and We Miss You and We Thank You for Everything 🙏🏽 💕Rest in Peace Martin Luther King💕

Nearly fifty - two years after this sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. King, it's traveling to this day speaks clear! Though our politics in the USA speaks to the premise of Church separate from the State to justify self promoted POWER! We can not render to Cesar without realizing that God made Cesar. The Church must rise and speak , live by example! Almighty God commands it , Jesus died, arose, for it , and The Holy Spirit acclaims it for us to be transformed in love ! Thank you MLK!

i can't hold my tears

A message from the mouth of a true prophet as downloaded from the mouth of God may your heart be transformed and your walk as a Christian be in deed and not only in word 🙏🏽🦅

Ahead of his time. Greatest American of All Time. Happens to be black ironically.

Paul's letter to a schizophrenic America🤨😐... Letter that will forever be relevant🙂

He says it's 1956 in the sermon, but thanks for posting this.

Test their fruits.

I cannot find the part about him calling on people to be maladjusted in any text online...

Thinks we are that dumb..

Amen John 14:27

God tested most of them and find them not true Apostles of His son JESUS CHRIST

November 4, 1956 not June 3, 1958. "I understand that you have an economic system in America known as Capitalism. Through this economic system you have been able to do wonders. You have become the richest nation in the world, and you have built up the greatest system of production that history has ever known. All of this is marvelous, but Americans, there is the danger that you will misuse your Capitalism. "I still contend that money can be the root of all evil. It can cause one to live a life of gross materialism. I am afraid that many among you are more concerned about making a living than making a life. You are prone to judge the success of your profession by the index of your salary and the size of the wheel base on your automobile, rather than the quality of your service to humanity. The misuse of Capitalism can also lead to tragic exploitation. This has so often happened in your nation. "They tell me that one tenth of one percent of the population controls more than forty percent of the wealth. Oh America, how often have you taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes. "If you are to be a truly Christian nation you must solve this problem. You cannot solve the problem by turning to communism, for communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that no Christian can accept. "You can work within the framework of democracy to bring about a better distribution of wealth. You can use your powerful economic resources to wipe poverty from the face of the earth. God never intended for one group of people to live in superfluous inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty. "God intends for all of his children to have the basic necessities of life, and He has left in this universe "enough and to spare" for that purpose. So I call upon you to bridge the gulf between abject poverty and superfluous wealth." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Sermon delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama (November 4, 1956). See kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/publications/knock-midnight-inspiration-great-sermons-reverend-martin-luther-king-jr-1 and kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bdZlnLKZvdvRkYU.html Martin Luther King, Jr. said this in 1952: "I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed to see its relative merits. It started out with a noble and high motive, to block the trade monopolies of nobles, but like most human systems it falls victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has outlived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes." - Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter to Coretta Scott, July 18, 1952, tinyurl.com/ybkv35ev And then 16 years later... "The trouble is that we live in a failed system. Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level…That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we’re going to have to change the system." - Martin Luther King, Jr., March 27, 1968, kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qNCPqbZ7sp_RYZ8.html "Unfettered or unregulated capitalism is about societies that cannibalize themselves. When capitalism is the dominant ideology … it turns everything into a commodity, including human beings and, of course, natural resources. It exploits these commodities until they are exhausted." - Chris Hedges, NY Times Pulitzer Prize winner, kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r5aShcp819S2YIE.html Albert Einstein on capitalism vs. socialism. “Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights. ...I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.” - Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?, Monthly Review, May 1949, kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a9qlZpV0qKfDeZs.html and tinyurl.com/ybkv35ev "The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor." - Victor Hugo, goo.gl/L4yJLk Stephen Hawking says we should be more frightened of capitalism than robots. ""If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality." - Stephen Hawking, October 8, 2015, kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q795mthim9jbkn0.html Stephen Hawking: You Should Support Wealth Redistribution, Secular Talk, Oct 10, 2015, kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ldmnobqIl7Srcn0.html "A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized." - Noam Chomsky, “Hopes and Prospects," 2010, p. 114 “Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.” - John Maynard Keynes

I would have preferred a more precise sermon that told Americans to follow the 10 commandments for the consequences of not following them would be Hell-fire. If you keep God's commandments, you are demonstrating love. Let us remember that it was Paul who taught that keeping the commandments irrelevant or minor as compared to "belief" and "faith" in a risen savior.He altered Christianity with his innovative concept of atonement. He made Christianity "anew" and deviated from the teachings of Jesus. According to the book of ACTS 1: 12-16 , Matthais was chosen to replace Judas Iscariot, because they had high standards . Therefore, having 12 disciples who had known Jesus in the flesh was very important. Paul (a.k.a. Saul of Tarsus, from the tribe of Benjamin, a Pharisee, and relative of Herod, ) self-proclaimed himself as an Apostle of God at # 13 (a symbolic number of rebellion) based on "hearing a mysterious voice" in a ghostly manner on the road to Damascus,only latter to commit to telling 3 different accounts with no sound proof of this event. ( See Acts 9:7, Acts 22: 7-9, and Acts 26:14). Crafty and cunning, he hijacked Christianity ( that includes following the commandments) from Jesus, with half of the writings in the New Testament attributed to him, all along working to destroy Jesus' teachings from within.

He is not mistaken on the privileges of capitalism, which has raised billions out of poverty and allowed many so-called poor people of today to enjoy luxuries which could not have been envisioned by billionaires of a hundred years ago. He is, however, partly mistaken on the latter point, but, then, as he himself admits, he is no economist. He would have benefited greatly from studying true (Austrian) economics, and not the big government sham pushed by Keynes, which dominates our present institutions. It's not the free market capitalists but the socialist-minded activists and politicians who introduced unfair policies of over-taxation, protections, subsidies, tariffs, etc. It's precisely these arrogant ideologies of central planning which led (inevitably) to the totalitarian nightmares of the 20th century. He is correct, however, that materialism must be restrained, -- but, voluntarily, through the promotion of the spiritual value of charity, and not violently, through the political expedient of taxation, which is only legalized robbery, and which fosters the division of the citizenry into special interest groups who lobby the government for their unfair share of that plundered capital. Incidentally, those billionaires, despite paying more in taxes (i.e. having half of their fortunes stolen by government), still give more to charity than the rest of us, not to mention how much they benefit us by engineering goods, services, and jobs. While many people imagine they themselves can do what those men do, true organizational and entrepreneurial ability is are. The public hostility towards the wealthy class is mostly born of ignorance and envy; really, it's the politicians we should blame, and our own foolishness in constantly expanding their powers, handing over stupendous sums which they skim and spend in the most corrupt and incompetent ways, creating havoc in society. They would, of course, like nothing more than to see private enterprisers scapegoated, as we all vote to take more and ever more money away from the people who earned it and put it into the hands of people who mismanage it. Remember, if the politicians were honest and any good at organizing resources, they would be captains of industry, engaging in voluntary transactions, and not crooked bureaucrats, who take our money and either make things worse or, at any rate, do their jobs less efficiently than the private sector could do them. "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design... A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers." ~ F.A. Hayek "Every socialist is a disguised dictator." - Ludwig von Mises “Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all.” ― Frederic Bastiat "What has always made the state a hell on earth is that men have tried to make it their heaven." - Friedrich Holderlin "He's not an economist, he's a Kenynesian." - Murray Rothbard kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zrd0apidutOZYac.html