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RUSH: So I was just watching a little bit of Jimmy Carter speaking at the Martin Luther King memorial. This is unbelievable. He\u2019s going through a litany of things that Martin Luther King wouldn\u2019t like about today. The Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court striking it down. Photo ID? Martin Luther King wouldn\u2019t like that, which is discriminatory, and would deny people the right to vote.<\/p>\n

How in the world can that a photo ID deny you the right to vote, unless you\u2019re not who the photo is? Anyway, he then said, “And Dr. King would not like all of the high unemployment of black people, and high unemployment in black teenages.” I\u2019m watching this in stunned disbelief. Well, who\u2019s running the show now? Dr. King wouldn\u2019t like all the high African-American unemployment today? <\/line><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve only had four and a half years of the policies the first African-American president responsible for it. And, by the way, it wasn\u2019t that much better when old Jimmy was in the White House his self. When Jimmy his self was in the White House, we needed a misery index to keep track of how bad it was. Now, this is 51 seconds. This is Dr. King. You\u2019re not hearing this message on The Mall today. You\u2019re not hearing this message in the Lincoln Memorial.<\/p>\n

Dr. King, October 26, 1967, in Philadelphia at Barrett Junior High School.<\/p>\n

KING: What I\u2019m saying to you this morning, my friends: Even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures! Sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, “Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well!” If you can\u2019t be a pine on the top of a hill, be a scrub in the valley, but be the best little scrub on the side of the rill. Be a bush if you can\u2019t be a tree. If you can\u2019t be a highway, just be a trail. If you can\u2019t be a sun, be a star. It isn\u2019t by size that you win or you fail; be the best at whatever that you are!<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: You don\u2019t hear that sadly from anybody in politics anymore. You certainly don\u2019t hear that on the Democrat side, and sadly, you don\u2019t hear this on the Republican side from very many people. I\u2019m gonna play that for you again. This is Dr. King. This is years after the “I Have a Dream” speech, which was 1963. This was five years later in Philadelphia, to some junior high school students. The school was Barrett Junior High. <\/p>\n

KING: What I\u2019m saying to you this morning, my friends: Even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures! Sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, “Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well!” If you can\u2019t be a pine on the top of a hill, be a scrub in the valley, but be the best little scrub on the side of the rill. Be a bush if you can\u2019t be a tree. If you can\u2019t be a highway, just be a trail. If you can\u2019t be a sun, be a star. It isn\u2019t by size that you win or you fail; be the best at whatever that you are!<\/p>\n

RUSH: And when you meet God, at the end of your life, you\u2019ve been the best you can be at whatever your lot in life was. This was a man… If I may translate this, this was a man speaking to the weak. He wasn\u2019t coddling them. He\u2019s saying be as strong as you can be. Be the best you can be. He was not coddling the weak. He was not excusing them. By “weak,” I mean meek, whatever. I\u2019m not talking about weak in character. It\u2019s clear what he\u2019s talking about. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s value in every job. Work is its own reward. Do it the best you can and be known for it, because ultimately you judgment is with God. That\u2019s what\u2019s not on the tape, but that\u2019s how he concluded it. He was the Reverend Dr. King after all. Regardless, they got Clinton up there now speaking. You\u2019re not hearing anything like this message at this ceremony honoring him today, and you\u2019re not — from what I\u2019m hearing from credible reporters — hearing anything similar to what he said in the “I Have a Dream” speech, by the same token.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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