FLMountainMan
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This speech is just amazing. About two months ago I downloaded a bunch of speeches from limewire, a few each from: Winston Churchill - great words, extremely upperclass accent; JFK - speaking voice is surprisingly bad, no wonder he "lost" the radio debate to Nixon; FDR; Malcolm X - very casual delivery; and MLK - very strong Southern accent "weah don wawray about tha dawgs ova theah".
Anyway, I strongly recommend listening to MLK's "Mountaintop" speech. I still get goosebumps everytime I listen to it. It's long, almost a half-hour, but is really moving. It's the speech he gave the day before he was shot and knowing that fact as you listen to it makes it all the more powerful. As a caveat, I'm a southerner who's attended black churches for most of his adult life, so the cadence and delivery is probably more appealing to me than someone from Oregon or something.
Anyway, I strongly recommend listening to MLK's "Mountaintop" speech. I still get goosebumps everytime I listen to it. It's long, almost a half-hour, but is really moving. It's the speech he gave the day before he was shot and knowing that fact as you listen to it makes it all the more powerful. As a caveat, I'm a southerner who's attended black churches for most of his adult life, so the cadence and delivery is probably more appealing to me than someone from Oregon or something.