Y'all know what time of y'all don't know y'all bat all suit on the back down, giving them move like the milking buck bus things and its cubs. Good it, Steve ha listen to movie together for STU. Please, Mommy, I don't joy by joining me. You gotta turn, you gotta turn, turn, turn, got the turnout, then turn the water to the water go come come on your back, huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody. You are listening to the voice? Oh, come on dig me now, one and only Steve Harvey Man got a radio show, Boil Boil boy. I can't even tell you man. I've been doing some thinking and and one of the things that I wanted to mention today to you as one of the principles of success being grateful at all times. It's difficult to do. Being grateful at all times. It's very difficult to do. I find that to be true with myself. Now there are others that might be able to do it, but just just from talking and listening and and and living and learning, being grateful at all times is difficult to do. But it's necessary because it's such an act of faith in knowing that no matter what's going on, it's going to be all right. And it's hard to see that when things are not going in your favor, when things have turned so dramatically the other way, and it seems as though you're the only one in the situation where you're involved with other people, or someone got an accusation against you falsely, or somebody trying to do something to you unjustifiably, whatever the case may be. When it's happening to you, it does appear to you that, oh, my goodness, man, this is horribly one sided. So it is difficult, it's hard to do to be grateful at all times, but it's so necessary, and I just I just want to point out a couple of things to you. First of all, the difficult in being grateful in hard times is that number one, the present circumstances. Oftentimes it's just so pressing and so overwhelming that a lot of your energy is devoted to trying to come up with the solution for that, or trying to muster the strength to whether the storm, or trying to just brace yourself to try to get through it, and in doing that, you don't it's hard to be grateful. It's hard to be grateful in pain, and I know it is. But here is the trick for me. This is what I've had to learn how to do, and I guess it takes practice to get here. It's not nothing you can just start doing right away. You got to practice it in small increments to really get it. What I've always had to say to myself and what I've learned to say to myself is this is happening to me because God is working me through something. This is happening to me because there's some form of tests that I have to pass in order to graduate to the next grade, that in order to be allowed to move to the next level. This is happening to me because there's something I need to purge my life, of my body, of my spirit, of something's purging in me. And when you purge something, it's it's painful. You know, It's like a person getting off drugs. The withdrawal is agonizing. I've been told and every documentary I've ever watched it it's an agonizing process to go cold turkey, to withdraw, to pull away after you've been doing something so long. And so I know that this process is tough when you're going through some pain. But when you're purging your system, when you're when you having to pass a test, when you're about to make when you're being made ready for the next level, that moment right in there, in realizing that that's what's happening, that's where you find the gratitude. That's where I found the gratitude. I hope I'm explaining this correctly. I'm gonna keep trying until I get it. But that's where you find the gratitude. The second part of it is is that God has never left me in all the things I've done, in all the mistakes I've made, all the lies I've told, all the situations I've gotten myself into, from being greedy and wanting too much for me at the expense sometimes of other people, not doing it deliberately or in a vindictive way, because I've never had that spirit. I'm not a vindictive or mean person, but sometimes in my life, in wanting to do what I wanted to do, I didn't totally weigh out the cause and effect of the other person. I mean, can't just be real with you with that. I mean, how many times we hadn't all done that? Look, it doesn't don't make you a bad person. You know, good people do bad things all the time. I just happened to have come to the realization that unknowingly and and not and not with malice intent towards a person. I've heard people looking at something I wanted to do without really looking at what the cause and effect would be on the other person. So in doing some of these things, I've created situations for myself. But God, through his grace and mercy, has allowed me to even get beyond that. So what I'm saying that God has never left me in spite of myself. He's always gotten me through. So that's the other part of it too. See that no matter what you're going through, you've got to understand that God has always gotten you through it, now, hasn't it. Now that may not be the way you want it or the way you liked, but guess what, you can't do wrong and not pay for that. Now that that's not how this works, That's never going to be the case. But the great thing about God is he fires warning shots at us all the time. He gives us an opportunity to stop. You know, he don't fully punish us right away every time we do something wrong, now does it? You know eventually you're going to get caught doing whatever it is you're doing. You do understand that, don't you. But the first time, that close call, that was a warning shot for you to stop. Look, I know you're not perfect. I know we all sent us down here, so I know you're gonna make mistakes. One time. I know you was looking at her when you wasn't supposed to. I know you said something to him when you wasn't supposed I know you got with her when you know you wasn't supposed to. And I know you got with him when you know you wasn't supposed to. So I'll tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna fire warning shot and maybe you'll slow your roll this time. But we keep on though, see see see that's what happens. See we just keep on and then the next thing, you know, we get caught. Now, old Lord, have mercy, I won't out of this. Yeah. Well see you didn't dug this hole pretty deep, and he gonna get you out. But there's some things that's got to go down now because you didn't pay attention to the warning shot. See, had you stopped the first time, you felt bad about it and said you wasn't gonna do it no more. The situation wouldn't be as critical. But because we don't stop, and we go again. But God always for gives, He always allows us to get back up again. He always gives us mercy. He always gives us his grace. He always does that. You're listening, ladies and gentlemen, man have your attention please on this very very special day. Today is a day of a man that we honor on a national holiday. This is the twenty twenty version of Martin Luther King Holiday. One of my heroes, Martin Luther King, one of the greatest leaders we've ever had in my lifetime. Happy birthday, and we salute you for all you've done. Welcome to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Shirley Starfield. Well, thank you, Steve. Good morning and Happy King Day everybody. And we will see if there's a delayed Good morning, Carlin for real, no delayed this morning on this King Holiday. What's going on? Crewe Morning? Thought you might be on time for the holiday. The two billionth wonder of the world. Junior Boy, Happy Cane Day, everybody, Happy Cane Day. It's King it's Kane nephew Timmy. Happy King Day, Baby, Happy King Day, Footsoldier Days. A day of service. Um, that's how we celebrate Doctor King's Day. A day of service, doing something in your community and things like that, and of course we'll play some highlights of Doctor King's speeches all of that. It's a very special day. We fought hard for this holiday. A lot of people fought hard for me. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely, and like you said, surely it's a day of service. But I'm so proud of us this crew. We give back all the time. We do community work, service work all the time, and it starts with our leader, Steve Harvey and his foundation mentoring can constantly, constantly giving back and we just follow your lead. Boss. Yeah, well, you know what how would I be without? Right now? He don't want to you know. Now you know how somebody say something, Gene, you think it's like they want something back. Well, you know, if it wasn't for you guys, I don't know where I would be, which I know Shirley wants to say that's a true statement. Yeah yeah, but you know it's all a part of it, man. I mean, you know, God blesses you to become a blessing. So it's it's all about that, you know. So, I mean, I'm in a good position. I'm happy today. Today, it's gonna be a great day. Man. We're gonna celebrate and we're gonna just appreciate being alive today. That's a good thing, you know. Carry on what you're doing. Participate how you gonna participate. But at the end of the day, we gotta keep praying for peace and it move on, move alone. Fired up today. I just want you to know, can I ask you a questions? Can I ask you a Christian question? Yeah? Gohead, you know, can you pray that he don't be the president? No more? Christian? I pray, I pray. I'm figuring that out because I've mentioned it to God several times. Yeah, we are instructing to pray for our leaders. All right, listen, If you want to have something special to say about Doctor King or find out about his legacy, what his legacy means to you, go to Steve Harvey FM on Instagram and Facebook, and we'll be back to talk more about this fabulous Doctor King holiday right after this. You're listening right now, here's a drum majorst speech on the Steve Harvey Morning Show. An instinct. It's a kind of drum major instinct, a desire to be out front, a desire to lead the parade, a desire to be first. It is something that runs a whole gamut of life. And so before we condemn them, let us see that we all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade. Alfred Adler, the great psychoanalyst, contends that this is the dominant impulse. Sigmund Fraud used to contend that sex was the dominant impulse, and adlacame with a new argument, saying that this quest for recognition, this desire for attention, this desire for distinction, is the basic impulse, the basic drive of human human life, this drum major instinct. And you know, we begin earlier to ask life to put us first. Our first cry as a baby was a bid for the tension, and all through childhood the drum major impulse or instinct is a major obsession. Children ask life to grant them first place. They are a little bundle of ego. They have innately the drum major instinct. Now an adult life, we still have it, and we really never get by it. We like to do something good, and you know, we like to be praised for it. Now, if you don't believe that, you just go on living life, and you will discover very soon that you like to be praised. Everybody likes it, as a matter of fact. And somehow this warm glow we feel when we are praised or when our name is in print is something of the vitamin aide to our ego. Nobody is unhappy when they are praised, even if they know they don't deserve it, and even if they don't believe it. The only unhappy people about praise is when that praise is going too much towards somebody else. But everybody likes to be praised because of this real drum major instinct. Do you know that a lot of the race problem them grows out of the drum major instinct, A need that some people have to feel superior, a need that some people have to feel that they are first, and to feel that their white skin ordained them to be first. And they have said over and over the game in ways that we see with our own eyes. In fact, not too long ago, a man down in Mississippis said that God was a child, a member or the White Citizens Council. And so God being the child a member means that everybody who's in that has us a kind of divinity, a kind of superiority. And think of what has happened in historism as a result, this perverted use of the drum major instinct led to the most tragic prejudice, the most tragic expressions of man's inhumanity to man. I mean, not only does this thing going to the racial struggle, goes into the struggle between nations. And I would submit to you this morning that what is wrong in the world today is that the nations of the world engaged in a bitter, colossal contest for supremacy, and some doesn't having to stop this trend. I'm sorely afred that we won't be here to talk about Jesus Christ and about God and about brotherhood too minimal years. Somebody done bringing into this suicidal thrust that we see in the world today. None of us are going to be around because somebody is gonna make the mistake through our senseless blunderings of dropping a nuclear bomb somewhere and then another one is gonna drop. And don't let anybody fool you. This can happen within a matter of seconds. They have twenty megaton bombs in Russia right now that can destroy a city as bigg as New York in three seconds with everybody ripe away in every building. And we can do the same thing to Russian China. But this is why we are drifted, and we are drifting now because nations are caught up with the German major instinct. I must be first, I must be supreme all a nation must rule the world. And I am sad to say that the nation in which we live is the supreme culprit. And I'm gonna continue to say it to America because I love this country too much to see the drift that it has taken. God didn't call America to do what she's doing in the world now. God didn't call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war as a war in Vietnam, and we are criminals in that war. We have committed more war crimes almost an inny nation in the world. And I'm going to continue to say it, and we won't stop it because of our pride and I Aracan sas the nation. But God has a way of even put nations in that place. Everybody here, here's a fact of no matter. Doctor Martin Luther King Junior's speech to drum major instinct speech. It was actually delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, on February fourth, nineteen sixty eight, and throughout all of his years of public service, doctor Mark Luther King Junior encouraged everybody to participate in community service. You're listening show, Welcome back to the ride. We will continue with more of doctor King the drum major instinct speech. Nobody is unhappy when they are praised, even if they know they don't deserve it, and even if they don't believe it. The only unhappy people about praise is when that praise is going too much towards somebody else. But everybody likes to be praised because of this real drum major instinct. Do you know that a lot of the race problem grows out of the drum major instinct? A need that some people have to feel superior. I need that some people have to feel that they are first, and to feel that their white skin ordain them to be first. They have said over and over the game in ways that we see with our own eyes. In fact, not too long ago, a man down in Mississippis said that God was a child a member of the White citizens Council. And so God being the child a member means that everybody who's in that has us a kind of divinity, a kind of superiority. And think of what has happened in historism as a result, this perverted use of the drum mage instinct led to the most tragic prejudice, the most tragic expressions of man's inhumanity to man. I mean, not only does this thing go into the racial struggle, goes into the struggle between nations. And I would submit to you this morning that what is wrong in the world today is the the nations of the world are engaged in a bitter, colossal contest for supremacy, and some doesn't having to stop this trend. I'm sorely afred that we won't be here to talk about Jesus Christ and about God and about brotherhood too many more years. Somebody done bringing into this suicide who thrust that we see in the world today. None of us are gonna be around because somebody is gonna make the mistake through our senseless blunderings, of dropping a nuclear bomb somewhere, and then another one is gonna drop. And don't let anybody fool you. This can happen within a matter of seconds. They have twenty megaton bombs in Russia right now that can destroy US city as big as New York in three seconds without everybody wiped away in every building. And we can do the same thing to Russian China. But this is why we are drifted, and we are drifting now because nations are caught up with the German major instinct. I must be first, I must be supreme all A nation must rule the world. And I am sad to say that the nation in which we live is the supreme culprit. And I'm going to continue to say it to America because I love this country too much to see the drift that it has taken. God didn't call America to do what she's doing in the world now. God didn't call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war as a war in Vietnam, and we are criminals in that war. We have committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world. And I'm going to continue to say it, and we won't stop it the course of our pride. And I Ragan says the nation. But God has a way of even putting nations in that place. The God that I worship has a way of saying, don't play with me. He has a way of saying. Is the God of the Old Testament used to say the Hebrews don't play with me? Isram, don't play with Smith Babylon. Be still and know that I'm God. If you don't stuff your reckless course, I'll rise up and break the backbone of your power. That can happen to America. Every nine then I go back and read Gibbons Decline and fall of the Roman Empire. And when I come and look at America, I say to myself, the parallels of frightening. We have perverted the drum made instinct. Every nine then, I guess we all think realistically about that day when we will be victimized with what is life's final common denominator. That's something we call death. We all think about it the never nine then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral, and I don't think of it in a morbid sense every nine. Then I asked myself, what is it that I would want say? And I leave the word to you this morning. If any of you around when I have to meet my day, I don't want a long funeral. And if you get somebody to deliver the unite to tell them not to talk to you none every nine, then I wonder what I want him to say. Tell him not to mention that I have a Nobel Peace Prize. That isn't important. Tell him not to mention that I have three or four hundred other awards that's not important. Tell him not to mention where I went to school. I like somebody to mention that day that Marderin Luther King Junior tried to give his life serving of us. I'd like for somebody to say that day that Martin Luther King Junior tried to love somebody. I want you to say that day that I tried to be right on the wall question. I want you to be able to say that day that I did try to feed the hungry. I want you to be able to say that day that I did try in my life to call those who were naked. I want you to say on that day that I did try in my life to visit thals who were imprisoned. I want you to say that I try to love and serve humanity. Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice, Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shall of things will nothing matter. I won't have any money to leave behind, I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave I committed life behind, and that's all I want to say. If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a world a song, if I can show somebody he's traveling wrong, then my living will not be in vain. If I can do my duty as a Christian arc, if I can bring salvation to a war who wants wrought, If I can read the message as the Master talked, then my living we'll not be in vain. We'll be back. You're listening, all right, guys. Today is King Holiday. Happy King Day everyone. We are celebrating as we always do on this day. You know what, Let's start with the Morning crew and just talk about what the legacy of doctor Martin Luther King means to you, Steve, I mean, simply put, for me growing up, I mean, he was everything as a young black boy. I wasn't even a teenager yet, I was just a black boy. I learned everything from him, from my parents. I remember what happened in the community when he was killed. I remember Miss Blandon making us watch the funeral. She bought a black and white TV up to the school and we watched the mule drawn coffin being pulled up the street in DC. You know, we're ten eleven years old. I mean we're sitting there going what they did? What? And then I remember all the old black people crying. I was just sitting there, going, man, why did they do this? Because here's a man. All he ever talked about was, you know, holding hands and sharing and loving and the speech in sixty four. I remember that we had to learn it in school, certain pieces of it in plays. And so when they killed him, I was confused. I did not understand why this man had to die. And then when you hear all black people say stuff like white people don't want us to have nothing I mean, and you you're talking in the sixties now, a statement like that was a very very acceptable statement. And older black people just made a statement that white people don't want us to have nothing, and they were devastated. It was the most devastating moment as a black person that I remembered the community and then the riots erupted. So you're talking about sixty eight, man, you're talking about I'm eleven, and I'm hearing these things and I'm I'm forming decisions. And it caused me to feel for a number of years a certain kind of way about his death. And I was not handling it as what he lived his life for and live in peace and harmony and togetherness and love. No, man, I went the other way. They killed us that they killed him, They killed our dream, they killed our leader. They don't want us to have nothing. That's a horrible position to put eleven year old kid in. I'm watching my mama cry. My father man ain't never cried. He was so mad. Man. And my brothers, my brothers was different. Man. My brothers was panthers and nationalists and they went to work. They was different. So that him, his life legacy became more to me later on. But in the beginning, man, it was a devastating thing, and I just thought that it was the end for us. And uh, but his words resonnated that we as a people will get to the mountaintop. I may not get that weak, but we as a people will get into the mountaintop. And I started trying to understand what he was talking about then, and he was pulling for black people so hard, so hard speech. Martin Luther King, to me, was the greatest orator, orator. I like orator, Shirley. Okay, don you say what you like. I'm just telling you, Junior. Yes, I think that's right. He's the greatest one orator. Oh, I thought he was gonna be with you said it right, show us was looking at me, She was looking at me. Oh she had to press on. Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah, Tommy, what was he greatest gener right off all time? It's so stupid, man, Steve Harvey FM on Instagram and Facebook and and let us know what doctor King's legacy means to you. Okay, all right, Steve, time now for today's headlines on this King holiday. Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Anne Trip, thank you very much. Good morning, everybody. Yesterday is Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Day, a day we honor his life and legacy. Had he lived, doctor King would have been ninety one years old this month. They are commemorations to mark the day in cities and towns all over the country. They are even events in other countries. For instance, in England they're holding a definite ceremonies to honor doctor King. Security has been ramped up today at the Virginia state capital ahead of today's expected gun rights rally. Thousands of planning to hold a huge demonstration and rich to protest proposed gun restrictions. The three white racists were supposed to attend it, they're under arrest. Virginia Governor Rolph and the Northerm's already declared a state of emergency. No weapons will be allowed on the capitol grounds. No one wants another incident like the one we saw in Charlottesville in two and seventeen. Of course, he's referring to the White Power rally where a racists purposely plowed his car into a group of counter demonstrators, killing an innocent young woman. The Senate impeachment trial against Donald J. Trump is scheduled to begin tomorrow. Prosecution as well as defense attorneys have already followed their first legal breeze in President Trump Senate impeachment trial. The briefs are going to serve as previews of the arguments they're going to be making today. Later today, a Navy aircraft carry is going to be named after a black American World War Two hero, Dorry Miller. Back then, Blacks are only allowed to serve as kitchen help and servants on ships. Dorry Miller was a mess attendant on the battleship West Virginia, but on the mor of December seventh, nineteen forty one, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. As the ship drew heavy fire, Miller raced to the deck to assist the ship's fatally wounded commanding officer and to help other officers who were wounded to get under and below decks. He went up to a machine gun he had no training on at all, commandeered it and shot down enemy planes. Dorry Miller was awarded the Navy Cross after there was a hue and cry because the Secretary of the Navy would not even mention his name. But after a while the President stepped in and said no, this man should be honored. So then Dorry Miller was then awarded the Navy Cross, the second highest military decoration, becoming the first African American to be so honored. After Dorry Miller served bore the Indianapolis. After that on the escort carrier the Liscomb Bay in nineteen forty three, where Miller was killed when the Liscomb Bay was attacked and sank by the Japanese, he was awarded the Purple Heart. Top side the box office was Bad Boys for Life, by what You're Gonna Do? Well, they made a million dollars. Now back to Steve Harvey Morning Show. You're listening to all right, We're going to talk about racism. Steve the Social Injustices. This is your twenty twenty. We are in a brand new year, brand new decade. We have all witnessed racial incidents so much of the time. A lot of Americans believe that President Trump has made race relations worse and that they believe it's more common for people to express racist views now since Trump has become president. What do you think. It's very simple. Racism exists today because there are those who want things to go back the way they were, who never accepted any form of change, was not in agreement or participation with civil rights, cares nothing about affirmative action, and wants to be in complete control and power. And that is why racism exists. That's why policies exist, That's why voter suppression and exists. That's why districting exists. That's why they keep poorness census and we don't feel them out, and they use that against us. They do everything in their power the system to keep racism alive and will And that's why racism exists is because there are certain people who will not let the way things were go and subside, and the only way for them to feel superior is to make other people feel inferior. Period. Yeah, I mean it's true that the president, since he's become the president of race relations, do seem worth now in America than they've ever been. And I guess what we have to do. You know, we have a right to vote, and we should exercise that right and let him know we do not approve of what he's doing in office, and we do that by voting. And this is a year that we cast office speech. The whole climate change. It made people think that are in groups that are not for the welfare of all made them feel validated. They felt like one of us is now there. And based on some of the statements and policies he was doing, banning seven million million, I mean seven Muslim countries from travel, all of this type of stuff. They like that type of stuff. The sad thing in this country is thirty eight to forty million people who vote are going to vote for him. Again. Well, Steve, we have to do our job like we always do. And if you don't think you're gonna run into or meet one of them forty million people, you are sad together all right. Kids, schools, they're at the ball game right there, sitting next to you. Yeah, like that. On the flights they full of first class. Oh yeah, oh god. And that's where I mean. We have to do what we do and just encourage people to get out and vote. We got to vote strong. Just when Obama was roast. The only way this has a chance. If enough people vote, it can change. Yeah, absolutely it can. All right. When we come back from the break at thirty two after the hour, we're gonna play President Obama's March on Washington fiftieth anniversary speech from back in twenty thirteen. That's coming up right after this. You're listening too. Happy King Day everyone, It's the King Holiday where we celebrate the life and legacy of doctor Martin Luther King Junior. Now, do you guys remember back in twenty thirteen when President Obama delivered the remarks at the let Freedom Ring ceremony. Remember? Remember everything? It was a good old day. What's you say, Tommy? I remember everything, every single everything, every tie, everything, every golf fleeing, every beautiful speech. I remember everything, Omama. What you want to know? Well, I was asking, do you remember that speech? It was back in twenty thirteen he did the elect Freedom Ring ceremony to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial. Take a listen on the battlefield of justice. Men and women without rank or wealth, or title or fame, would liberate us all in ways that our children now take for granted. As people of all colors and creeds live together, and learn together, and walk together, and fight alongside one another, and love one another and judge one another by the content of our character, and this greatest nation on Earth to dismiss the magnitude of this progress, to suggest, as some sometimes do, that little has changed. That dishonor is the courage, the sacrifice of those who paid the price to march in those years, Medga Herrs, James Channing, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, Martin Luther King Jr. They did not die in vain. Their victory was great. But we would dishonor those heroes as well to suggest that the work of this nation is somehow complete. The arch of moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own. To secure the gains this country has made requires constant vigilance, not complacency, whether by challenging those who erect new barriers to the vote or ensuring that the scales of justice work equally for all, and the criminal justice system is not simply a pipeline from underfunded schools to overcrowded jails. It requires vigilance, and we'll suffer the occasional setback, but we will win these fights. This country has changed too much. People of good will, regardless of party, are too plentiful for those with ill will to change history's currents. In some way as though the securing of civil rights, voting rights, the eradication of legalized discrimination, the very significance of these victories may have obscured a second goal of the march. For the men and women who gathered fifty years ago, we're not there in search of some abstract idea. They were there seeking jobs as well as justice, not just the absence of oppression, but the presence of economic opportunity. For what does a profit of man? Doctor King would ask to sit at an integrated lunch counter if you can't afford the meal. This idea that one's liberty is linked to one's livelihood, That the pursuit of happiness requires the dignity of work, the skills to find work, decent pain, some measure of material security. This idea was I know Lincoln himself understood the Declaration of Independence in such terms as a promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. Doctor King explained that the goals of African Americans we're identical to working people of all races. You're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show on this King holiday. Remember back in twenty thirteen, President Obama delivered remarks at the Let Freedom Ring ceremony, which was to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial. Boys, Steve, we gotta say, we sure do miss him, don't we? What what you call that dog? They had? I miss everybody, them two beautiful dollars. I missed everybody. Yeah, I forever presidents going to the White House because it's the first time. Yes, yeah, yeah. Here's some more excerpts from his fabulous speech back in twenty thirteen. And then there were those elected officials who found it useful to practice the old politics of division, doing their best to convince middle class Americans of a great untruth that government was somehow itself to blame for their growing economic insecurity. The distant bureaucrats were taking their hard earned dollars to benefit the welfare cheat or the illegal immigrant. And then, if we're honest with ourselves, we'll admit that during the course of fifty years, there were times when some of us claiming to push for change, lost our way. The anguish of assassinations set off self defeating riots, legitimate grievances against police brutality tipped into excuse making for criminal behavior. Racial politics could up both ways, as the transformative message of unity and brotherhood was drowned out by the language of recrimination, and what had once been a call for equality of opportunity, the chance for all Americans to work hard and get ahead, was too often framed as a mere desire for government support, as if we had no agency in our own liberation, as if poverty was an excuse for not raising your child and the bigotry of others was reason to give up on your sin. All of that history is how progress stalled. That's how hope was diverted, so our country remained divided. But the good news is, just as was true in nineteen sixty three, we now have a choice. We can continue down our current path, in which the gears of this great democracy grind to a halt, and our children accept a life of lower expectations, where politics is a zero sum game where a few do very well while struggling families of every race fight over a shrinking economic pie. That's one path, or we can have the courage to change. The March on Washington teaches us that we are not trapped by the mistakes of history that we are masters of our faith. But it also teaches us that the promise of this nation will only be kept when we work together. We'll have to reignite the embers of empathy and fellow feeling, the coalition of conscience that found expression in this place fifty years ago. And I believe that spirit is there, that truth force inside each of us. I see it when a white mother recognizes her own daughter in the face of a poor black child. I see it when the black youth thinks of his own grandfather in the dignified steps of an elderly white man. It's there when the native born recognizing that striving spirit of the new emperor. When the interracial couple connects the pain of a gay couple who are discriminated against and understands it as their own. That's where courage comes from. When we turn not from each other or on each other, but towards one another and we find that we do not walk alone, that's where courage comes from. And with that courage, we can stand together for good jobs and just wages. With that courage, we can stand together for the right to healthcare in the richest nation on earth for every person. With that courage, we can stand together for the right of every child, from the corners of Anacosta to the hills of Appalachia, to get an education that stirs the mind and captures the spirit and prepares them for the world that awaits them. With that courage, we can feed the hunger, and house the homeless, and transform bleak waste, lands of poverty in the fields of commerce and promise America. I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we'll get back up. That's how a movement happens. That's how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along, says, come on, we're marching. There's a reason why so many who march that day and in the days to come. We're young. For the young or unconstrained by habits of fear, unconstrained by the conventions of what is, they dared to dream different, to imagine something better. And I am convinced that same imagination, the same hunger of purpose, stirs in this generation. We might not face the same dangers of nineteen sixty three but the fierce urgency of now remains. We may never duplicate the swelling crowds and dazzling procession of that day so long ago. No one can match King's brilliance. But the same flame that lit the heart of all who are willing to take a first step for justice, I know that flame remains. That tireless teacher who gets to class early and stays late and dips into her own pocket to buy supplies because she believes that every child is her charge. She's marching that successful business man who doesn't have to but pays his workers a fair wage and then offers a shot to a man, maybe an ex con, who's down on his love. He's marching the mother who pours her love into her daughter so that she grows up with the confidence to walk through the same doors as anybody's son. She's marching the father who realizes the most important job he'll ever have is raising his boy right, even if he didn't have a father, especially if he didn't have a father at home. He's marching the battles, scarred veterans who devote themselves not only to help and their fellow warriors, stand again, and walk again, and run again, but to keep serving their country. When they come home, they are marching everyone who realizes what those glorious patriots knew on that day. The change does not come from Washington, but to Washington. The change has always been built on our willingness, we the people, to take on the mantle of citizenship. You are merchant, and that's the lesson of our past. That's the promise of tomorrow. In the face of impossible eyes, people who love their country can change it. And when millions of Americans of every race and every region, every faith, and every station can join together in a spirit of brotherhood, then those mountains will be made low, and those rough places will be made plain, and those crooked places now towards grace. And we will vindicate the faith of those who sacrifice so much and live up to the true meaning of our creed as one nation under God, indivisible with liberty injustice for all. We'll be back. You're listening show. Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. Once Said that life's most persistent and urgent question is what are you doing for others? Coming up, we got some excerpts from doctor Kings. I've been to the mountaintop speech. Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness indeeds powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be, we have an opportunity to make America a better nation. And I want to thank God once more for allowing me to be here with you. You know, several years ago I was in New York City autographing the first book that I had written. While sitting the autographing books, the minute black woman came up. The only question I heard from all was you marderin Luther King? And I was looking down writing and I said yes. The next minute I felt something beating on my chest. Before I knew it, I had been stabbed by this deminuted woman. I was rushed to Hullum Hospital. It was a dog Saturday afternoon. That blade had gone through, and the X rays revealed that the tip of the blade was on the edge of my order the main ottery and one such's punction. You drowned in your own blood. That's the end of you. It came out in the New York Times the next morning that if I had merely sneezed, I would have died. Well. About four days later they allowed me after the operation. After my chest had been opened and the blade had been taken out. To move around in the wheelchair and the hospital, they allowed me to read some of the mail that came in, and from all over the states and the world. Kind letters came in. I read a few, but one of them I will never forget. I had received one from the President and the Vice President. I'd forgotten what those telegrams said. I'd received the visit and a letter from the Governor of New York, but I've forgotten what that letters said. But that was another letter that came from a little girl, a young girl who was a student at the White Plains High School. And I looked at that letter. I'll never forget it. Say it simply, dear Doctor King, I am a ninth grade student at the White Plains High School. She said. While it should not matter, I would like to mention that I'm a white girl. I read in the paper of your misfortune and of your suffering, and I read that if you had sneezed, you would have died. I'm simply writing you to say that I'm so happy that you didn't sneeze, and i'd want to say the night I want to say the night that I too, am happy that I didn't sneeze, because if I had sneeze, I wouldn't have been around here. In nineteen sixty when students all over the South started sitting in at lunch counters, and I knew that as they were sitting in, they were really standing up for the best in the American dream and taken the whole nation back to those great weals of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around hid in nineteen six to one when we decided to take a ride for freedom and end its segregation in it to state travel. If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here. In nineteen sixty two, when Nigros and all been at Georgia decided to straighten that box up. And whenever the men and women straighten that box up, they are going somewhere because a man had roger back unless it is bent. If I had sneezed, I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been here. In nineteen six to three, the black people of Birmingham Alabama aroused the conscience of this nation and brought into being the Civil Rights Bill. If I had sneeze, I wouldn't have had a chance later that year in August to try to tell America about a dream that I had had. If I had sneeze, I wouldn't have been down in Selma, Alabama to see the Gretain movement there. If I had sneeze, I wouldn't have been in Memphis to see a community rally around those brothers and sisters who are suffering. I'm so happy that I didn't sneeze, and they were telling them now it doesn't matter now, it really doesn't matter what happens now. I left Atlanta this morning, and as we got started on the plane that was six of us, the pilot said over the public address system, we are sorry for the delayed, but we have doctor mart Luther King on the plane, and to be sure that all of the bags were checked and to be sure that nothing would be wrong on the plane, we had to check out everything carefully, and we've had the plane protected and got it all night. And then I got into Memphis and some began to say the threats I talk about the threats that were out, or what would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers. Well, 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. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place, but I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will, and He's allowed me to go up to the mountain, and I've looked over and I've seen the promised Land. I may not get that with you when I want you to know the night that we as a people will get to the Promised Land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm a feeling in a man. Mine eyes have seen the glory all the coming of the Lord. You're listening morning show coming up. We're gonna play some excerpts from Doctor King's I Have a Dream speech. I am happy to john with you today. And what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation, five score years ago, a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous day break to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro steal is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the negro lives on a lonely island of property in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. So we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense, we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our Republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promise or rene to whichever the American was to fall our. This note was a promise at all men, Yes, black men have well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promisory note in so far as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back mark insufficient funds. But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. He refused to believe that that are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us a pun demand and the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hell of spot to remind the miracle of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling, offer to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time arise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time from the quick ends of racial and to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time of the reality for all of God's to It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negroes. Legitimate discontent will not pass until that is an invigorating altum of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content, we'll have a rude awakening. If the nation returns to business as usual, that will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is grant did his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds a revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But that is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrong for deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy first for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. You're listening right now as promise, we're gonna play some of doctor Kings. I have a dream speech which he delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial back in nineteen sixty three. One day, right bad in Alabama, little black bars and girls will be able to join hands with little white bars and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valid shall be exalted, Every hill and mountains shall be made low, the rough places will be made clean, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the gore of the Lord shall be revealed in all such shall see it together. This is our hope. This is a peace that I go back to the southwire. With this faith we will be able to hell out of the mountain of despair a stone of hoot. With this fame, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free. One day. This will be the day when all of God's children be able to sing with new meaning my country tears at the sweet land of liberty of bi sings land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride. From every mountain side, Let freedom ring of Americus. To be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening allegantes of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow cap rookis of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the carebacious slaps of California. But not only that. Let freedom ring from storm mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from lookout mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and mole hill of Mississippi, from every mountain fire, then freedom ring and wind. It happens when we allow freedom ring. When we let in a ring from every village and ever hamlet from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all about children, black men and pike men, Jews and tent files, Protestants and Catholic will be able to drain the hands and singing the words of the old Negro spiritual, Free at Last, Free at Last. Thank Ptom Father that you're listening. Steve Harvey Morning Show. I said, Steve, on this King Holiday. You know, earlier we were talking about race relations in America, and listen to this. More than one hundred and fifty years after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the US, most US adults say the legacy of slavery continues to have an impact on the position of black people in American society today. More than four and ten say the country hasn't made enough progress toward racial equality, and there is some skepticism, particularly among blacks, that black people will ever have equal rights with whites, according to a new Pew Research Center Pew Research Survey Center. So I'm an agreement with that, really and truly. I mean, you know, it hasn't made enough progress. Yeah, it hasn't. But this can be changed. This can be changed, but it will require a massive effort on our part. We have to get judges elected, We have to have to get made is elected, governors, senators, congressman elected. We have to change it. Can't be people who don't get you making decisions about you, even in the court system, and so we are so unjustly and over the top centers compared to anybody else that it's ridiculous. And why is that because of the preconceived connotations that people hold about us. We have to change all of this, but it's going to take a massive effort on our part to rid ourselves of those people. Now that will always be people always. We are never going to get rid of opposition. That will never happen. That's that's a world that we that we set up to end a long time ago, all the way back to Adam and Eve that ended that world got thrown out there with so it'll be with us. But we can do something about it. We have to create more and more and more successful people who are black, brown, yellow, red. It has to be more. And when you do that, you can bring about change here. You have to vote and it can You can start with yourself. Yeah, you can get yourself to the highest level you can possibly achieve for you. Not saying everybody got to go out and become millionaires or stars or nothing like that, No, but everybody has to get out of here and be productive citizens. Everybody has to get out of here and live as righteous a life as we can, and everybody got to get out of here and vote. If you do that, man, we can change so many things. My opinion, my opinion, black brown yeller what my uncle said, not own. So only one more statistics say that about six and ten African Americans say black people are treated less fairly than white and hiring pay and promotions, shopping in stores or dining in restaurants, when voting in elections. Yeah, and when seeking medical treatment as well. Oh I can tell you about that. Tell us, Junior, taking medicals. I get treated differently in the emergency room. Oh no, they sit there and let me sit in there and wait, we'll just sit in cell christ I get. I sit there maybe an hour before somebody come in and say, okay, we'll see you now. Didn't gonna determine whether I'm faking. They think you're fake. Oh yeah, how do you fake? I don't know, but that's their mindset. Oh he don't want nothing about some drugs. That's what he's in. That's the problem. Yeah, yeah, that's what did my blood want to come back? They may come back with a different statement. Oh well he's not playing, Wow, Junior, I didn't know that. People in first class. So what do you do? What the hell do you do? Right? What do you do? And the same survey, white people tend to say that black people and white people are treated about equally. Very small shares say white people are treated less fairly than black people. What they say white people are treat it less fairly. A small percentage say that white people are treated less fairly white. That's small percentage. I have some people they could ride with just for six hours. I got some people you could ride with for six hours, and I want you to see how they're treated. Yeah, all right, we'll be back with more of the Steve Every Morning show. Right after this, you're listening to Steven Show. As the Bows told, we commit to a life of service because doctor King. One of my favorite cults from him is not everybody can be famous, but everybody can be great because greatness is determined by service. King, Holiday is what are you doing to serve others? Steve? Of course, you and your wife Marjorie always give back your foundation to Steve and Marjorie Harvey Foundation. Most recently this past holiday season, your family gave aways lots and lots and lots of toys to a whole bunch of families in Africa. We saw that on social media, of course. I mean, you know, look, it's it's a way of life, you know, it's a part of it. If you don't do it, I don't know how I could justify my existence. I really don't, you know. But at the same time, if you're not fortunate enough to help anybody right now, your goal should be to just be able to get yourself in a position where maybe the following year you'll be able to do something. You know, prayer changes things, People's lives turn around, people get it together. You never know, the light switch comes on. It's encouraging for everybody to understand. So I don't want it to be like how much we do. I'm so fortunate that God bless us us to be able to do something. That's that's the real gift right there, that I am able to help somebody else, And I'm God for that and want everybody else to just keep your faith because it can fip around for you, it can happen to you. That's right. That's right again. Happy King Day. This is the day we celebrate the life and legacy of doctor Martin Luther King Junior. You're listening to show. Happy King Day everyone. It's the King Holiday where we celebrate the life and legacy of doctor Martin Luther King Junior. Now, do you guys remember back in twenty thirteen when President Obama delivered the remarks at the let Freedom Ring ceremony. Remember remember everything? It was a good old day. Everything. What you say, Tommy, I remember everything about every single everything, every tie, every super every golf swing, every beautiful speech. I remember everything. I don't Mama, what you want to know? Well, I was asking, do you remember that speech? It was back in twenty thirteen he did the elect Freedom Ring ceremony to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial. Take a listen on the battlefield of justice. Men and women without rank or wealth, or title or fame, would liberate us all in ways that our children now take for granted. As people of all colors and creeds live together, and learn together, and walk together, and fight alongside one another, and love one another and judge one another by the content of our character, and this greatest nation on earth, to dismiss the magnitude of this progress, to suggest, as some sometimes do that little has changed. That dishonor is the courage and the sacrifice of those who paid the price to march in those years, Medga Harhurst, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, Martin Luther King Jr. They did not die in vain. Their victory was great. But we would dishonor those heroes as well to suggest that the work of this nation is somehow complete. The arch of moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own. To secure the gains this country has made requires constant vigilance, not complacency, whether by challenging those who erect new barriers to the vote or ensuring that the scales of justice work equally for all. And the criminal justice system is not simply a pipeline from underfunded schools to overcrowded jails. It requires vigilance. You're listening to show, all right, Steve. We all know we've talked about it in the show, and we talk about it quite often, the divide that is in this country. Of course, we need reform, we need healing, we need lots of things. And one of the ways we can do that is by casting our vote, amongst other things. You know, Doctor King once said the time is always right to do what is right. I love that quote. So as we celebrate Doctor King Day today his life and his legacy, make this day a day of service and make a difference in your community. Steve, Yeah, you know, um, you know it's I've been had so many of these Mark Luther King days and had so many days of memories, you know, because like for me, like I said earlier, this happened in sixty eight so and I've dealt with it on several different levels, and for many years it was just this time of the year was very angry time for me, you know, because they killed a hero of ours and how could they and there was no remorse for it, and then there was no justifying who really did it, and so forth and so on. But as I got older, I came to understand what Marl Luther King was really about and what he was trying to get us to see, and how his life was taken at such an early age, but it had such an impact on the world globally, and you know, you know, look not just naturally, so I mean, as as I look at it now, I understand what he was trying to do, and he was one of the great leaders of our time. And I just I don't know if this is acceptable to say, but I just don't think that we've had a leader of that magnitude since him, not for our community. We've had people who've made contributions. Of course, you know Obama made a contribution, major contribution by coming to president. You know, there were people your Al Sharpton has made contributions. You know, it's been to people. I don't want to get into NACA. I want to think I'm trying to just single only people, but just off the top of that, people have made contributions, you know. I think it's important for us all to realize that all of us can make a contribution. You don't have to be famous or rich to make a contribution, because Marl Luther King was not a rich man. Gandhi was not a rich man. Mother Teresa was not a rich woman. But the contribution that they made, and I think that's a message for all of us that no matter who you are and where you are in life, you can make You can make a contribution. You can affect one child's life. Every woman that sees a girl going astraight, if you pulled her to the side and just said, hey, look, I like to invite you to my home just to share with you some things, because you look like you're gonna be a fine young lady. Sometimes young girls have never heard that, and so you see them doing the wrong thing, and maybe you can pull them to the side and be encouraging. Same thing with boys. A young man, let me talk to you where you're headed in life? You look like you got something on the ball. What's going on with you? It don't always work, but I've seen it work time and time and time again. And all of us as individuals can make a contribution to this thing. We can live our lives where we affect the life. If you don't have the money to have a mentor in Cambra brain, hundreds of boys down there. It's fine. Can't you have one boy over, just one? Can't you take one boy to the park, just one? Can't you go down to boys and girls club and adopt become a big brother to one boy one girl. That's all it takes. Man. And on the last thing, I like to say, it's just the fathers. This probably ain't the tone for Mark Luther King Day. But if every father would be a daddy, we wouldn't have to have mentoring camps at all. So fathers, just take some time out contact your child. If you ain't been present, apologize. Women, stop holding for those of you that's doing that. Stopped holding the children as pawns in the relationship. If you don't pay this money, you ain't seeing the baby. Look. I know men who have been embarrassed by that, to the hundreds and thousands. I was in that position one time in my life where I was embarrassed. Why I couldn't take care of my family. But I ask God to help me to pick me up and get me on my feet. Why I could be what I was supposed to be. But I was very fortunate in that I didn't not have an exit my first wife, who held the children as pawns. She was always a great mother in that regard, saying, look, whatever you need to do, get yourself together, see these kids. Okay. Cool. So I got myself together and I had a chance to. But if you are a woman's using kids as palms, stop doing that. Let this man see them childs. Because it ain't the money the child is looking for. It's the companionship, it's the love, It's the feeling of being able to say, I talk to my daddy. This a picture of me and my daddy. Do you know what that does for a young girl in her life? Do you have any idea what that does for a young boy that individual? Step right there from every single man in this country who is a father, and you cannot replace your old family with a new family and treat them right and forget about the old family, because guess what, that's not the trade off the God ours. So even in that way, we can all make a contribution on this holiday. We can all make contribution by mentoring, becoming a big brother a little sister to somebody. We can all make a contribution by sitting down and just and talking with the enemy. I'm telling you, man, you cannot have peace without talking with the enemy. So get that notion out your head. I don't talk with the enemy. It's the only way to solve problems. So sometimes you gotta sit down with the person you don't really agree with to see if you can come to some form of agreement. Those are my closing remarks to day. I'm just did that because I finally learned what mar and Luther King really meant. I stopped being mad about him getting killed. I'm still mad, but let it go. By my closing remarks, y'all have a great weekend. Steve Harvey out by. It's Monday. It's Monday, a great weekend. Bye for all Steve Harvey contests. No purchase necessary, void where prohibited. Participants must be legal US residents at least eighteen years old, unless otherwise stated. For complete contest rules, visit Steve Harvey FM dot com. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.