Today's show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time y'all don't know. Y'all back a suit, looking back to back, giving them like the milling bus things and it's not good. Steve Hartley, I don't join Jo. You gotta use that turn out. You got to turn to turn them out. Love, got to turn out to turn the water the water. Come, come on your baby, I shall will. Good morning everybody you are listening to the voice, Come on dig me now. One and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Why Because God, God is in the blessing business. If you go get in line, he has something for you. God is amazing. The plan he actually has for you is so far greater than you can possibly imagine. It's really mind blowing. And as I look back on where He's brought me from and what he's currently doing for me, all I can do is tell you is God. That's all I can tell you, Because I tell you right now, I didn't foresee it. You know. It oftentimes amazes me when I listened to celebrities when they interview how they say, you know, I always always thought that this would happen for me, and I just you know it could be true, but for me, it's not that way at all. I didn't imagine it this way. I had a dream of becoming famous one day, but I had no idea would it would ever get to this. It was a very very simple desire for fame. That is no way I could have seen all this. There is no way I am telling you this is. This has been nothing for me but the grace of God, and all the times I failed, every time I had fallen, he picked me up, He dusted me off, and he kept me moving. It has been an amazing thing to watch God do what he do. As I look back on my history and you sometimes look back on your history, you've got to see, man, wow, what God has done for you and what He's brought you through to enable you to be you are. It is amazing because really, I mean really real talk. Now, had he allowed all of the decisions I had made to play all the way out, I can assure you I wouldn't be here today. But God, through this grace and mercy, who had a plan for me, who was just waiting on me to come get in line, and then he was gonna start empty, and now he was gonna start shipping out all the boxes in heaven with my name on it, and man, and what a great god he is, what a great god he is, And you have boxes of blessings with your name on it that he is waiting to ship. But he needs you to go down there and get in line. That's what it is. It is not that he has more boxes for other people than he do you. He got boxes with your name on it who have never been shipped. Because you will not get in line to go get him. You will not ask God for him, you will not do the things necessary to attain them. We stop our own blessings. Man, I have been the biggest stopper of my blessings than anybody else. I can't really get mad at nobody. I got nobody to blame for my existence but me. But then at the same time, I can't take credit for this. I really really can't. I kid you not. I cannot take credit for it. And if you ever see me taking credit for it, tap me on the shoulder, say Steve, pull up. Remember you said this ain't about you. If you catch me taking too much credit, you have my permission to stop me. Now here. It is the deal, though, and this is what I want to get through to you today. Moving forward while under attack, new level, new devil. You know, every time you go somewhere, every time you try to progress, every time you make a decision to be better, to do better, that's going to be a confrontation you're going to have because it is the enemy's job to not see you go forward, do better. Won't more behave yourself. There is a force that is operative out there that has people working on his behalf twenty four seven. You got a computer, go read a blog. Just go read a blog. They're busy man, not knowing, but just saying evil stuff constantly. That's a job. Well, here's what happens. I you. We have to always keep moving forward while we're under attack, because the attack is going to always come. If you allow the attackers to stop you, you will lose that particular battle. And you cannot afford this. You know. My father used to say, be careful when you're trying to kick someone body off the ladder, because you got to take your foot off too, and you might slip. And so when people are taking their feet off the ladder, most something more. The majority the may't even own a ladder. They just at the bottom throwing stuff up at you. They are just shaking your ladder. They ain't even they ain't even on your level. Really tell you the truth, they really not. You have moved on far beyond them, spiritually, physically, everything, but they are still shaking your ladder and attacking you. Keep moving forward while under attack, because the attacks are going to come. If you take the time to stop and address it, you are impeding your own progress. This is very important to understand. Go on about your business and remember Steve Harvey and remember those of you out there. There is a Bible verse that helps me out every time. And I don't know why. I got it on six different plaques sitting all around my offices. Everywhere I go, I can read it Isaiah fifty seventeen. No weapon formed against me. Sheall prosper that because this is that he will put me under his wings or protection. And this is my inheritance as a servant of the Lord period. I'm his boy, he my man, so so did so when you come in for me, I have to just rest on that Lord right there, that he got it that no weapon formed against me, She'll prosper. I'm just like you sometimes, you know, we know better, but sometimes we don't do better. Man, let them say what they're gonna say. When they get through saying it, when they get through writing it, when they get through talking about you, when they get through lyne about you. Guess what they're gonna have to do. They're gonna have to step back and watch your rise. They're gonna have to kick back and watch what God got for you, because nothing God got for you. Can't nobody stop it. I don't care what they do. Keep moving forward while under attack. You know, somebody tell you something. Minister Lewis fair Khan taught me something very important one day. He says, Steve, remember this. He said. It is a common thing for a dog to bark up at the moon. But if the moon balks back at the dog, the dog becomes famous. You feel me, the moon was talking to you. What did you? How did the moon stop and talk to you? Don't give them that. Let the dog bark up at the moon. Don't you be up there? You go where God got you going. Don't bark back at this dog because the dog come famous. Because they ain't gonna be able to get to you, but the dog is famous. Now They want to interview the dog. Now the dog guess what he gonna do? Mo bark? And guess what about you? Man? Gone about your business, y'all. God is in the blessing business all day long. Man, Go get in line, get you some get them packages and boxes ship to you. They got your name on it. Show. Good morning, everybody, Welcome to the ride. Steve Harvey Morning Show, very very special show this morning. This is the email K Show. This is where we recognize one of the greatest leaders of all time. Ladies and gentlemen. I am proud to say that I was alive to see one of the greatest leaders ever born in this world today, Marna Luther King. Make no mistake about it. You can say who you want to say. I could throw a mar Luther King and I can match him. This was a bad, bad man man. And so we're here to celebrate his birth, his life, everything, and we got the whole show here to get it done. Let's get a start of Sherley Strawberry. Good morning, Happy MLK Day. Steve Carlin Pharrell, Good morning, Happy m l K Day. Everybody but you got Julie morning, everybody. Happy Kane Day. Kane nephew Tommy top Top Emil Kane, greatest of all time? Yes, sir, Yes, sir, twenty twenty one. Here we are. You know, y'all, y'all got to live to see king. I had to read about him in the books. I wouldn't even him. I didn't see y'all, didn't Timmy, you was ten, You was just born, tom You were born in sixty seven. Yeah, he was a l when you was one year old. He was killed, right man? Yeah I was eleven. Yeah, you got to see him, hey man. Miss Blandon made us watch the funeral on TV. She bought a black and white TV to school and made us watch the funeral on TV. Messed us up because we didn't understand because you know, um, when when when I came home, man, When when I came home from school when he had been murdered. My father was home, he had left work and him and my mother was standing in that crime. And I couldn't understand it. I came home and why y'all crying? Why the crying? And my father said, white folks don't want us to have nothing to And that's and that was him, my father, That was his analogy of the whole thing. White folks don't want us to have nothing. They didn't kill this man right here, ain't did nothing in nobody. All he wanted to do was have us together. And that's when I thought, and it sent me into something as a child, because I begin I thought what my father was saying was factual, you know what I'm saying. And I accepted that, and I went and I lived for a lot of years with that thought, you know, a lot of years with that thought. And so and our parents were so strong, Steve, and to see them cry like that, I can't only imagine. Yeah, that was that was devastating. Man. This was their hope, you know, for holding hands to speech in sixty four. I have a dream. And then from the man he thought, Man, we thought we was gonna get somewhere, and they killed his dude, My father's growing boy. Oh he was period. Oh he was through. And so yeah, wow, Well he left the legacy with his speeches and just all the good work, you know, with his nonviolence that he taught us. And and you know, his birthday is always celebrated as a day of service. So yeah, we're gonna place some of the highlights all morning of doctor King's most famous speeches. And that's what we're gonna do here as we celebrate doctor Martin Luther King Junior on this day. We'll be back. You're listening show right now. Here's a drum majst 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 the 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 adlacan 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 grows out of the drum made 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 a kind of divinity, a kind of superiority. And think of what has happened in historism as a result, dis perverted use of the drum made instinct led to the most tragic prejudice, the most tragic expressions of man's in humanity 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 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 suicidal thrust that we see in the world today. None of us are going to be around because somebody is going to make the mistake through us, since Sliss blunderings of dropping a nuclear bomb somewhere and then another one is gonna drop. And don't let anybody fool you. Oh, 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, with 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 gum major instinct. I must be first, I must be supreme all a nasion 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've 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 because of our pride and I Ragan says the nation. But God has a way of even put nations in that place. You're listening show, Welcome back to the ride. We will continue with more of Doctor Kings 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, 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 counsel, and so God being the child a member means that everybody who's in that has us a kind of divinity, hind 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 in humanity to man. I mean, not only does this thing going too 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 done 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 suicide 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 a city as big as New York in three seconds with 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 drum 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 than any 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 Ragan says the nation. But God has a way of even put 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 a god of the Old Testament used to say the Hebrews, don't play with Mesurem, don't play with Smith Babylon. Be still and know that I'm God. If you don't stuck 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 are 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 to every 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 are wrong, When I have to meet my day. I don't want a long funeral. And if you get somebody here to deliver the unite, you tell him not to talk to you long 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 of awards, that's not important. Tell him not to mention where I went to school. I like somebody to mention that day the modern Luther King Junior tried to give his life serving of us. I'd like for somebody to say that day, the modern 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 close those who were naked. I want you to say on that day that I did try in my life to visit those who were imprisoned. I want you to say that I tried 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 shallow things will nothing matter. I won't have any money to leave behind, I won't have the fine and luxurious scenes 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 Christen Hawk, if I can bring salvation to a wall who once wrote, if I can spread the message as the Master talk, then my living will not be in vain. You're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show, and Steve we gotta say happy belated birthday to you yesterday sixfold like switching fold help your rand show good. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. It's hard. It's hard to be this fly at sixty. I ain't gonna lie to you. I felt like it, I said, man, But you know it all honestly, man, just number gratitude, man, because I'm gonna tell you, man, it was just sometimes, man, I really didn't think I would c sixty four to wow. I mean, I've been laying on the street and you know I wasn't I wasn't supposed to be here. A couple of times I died in the swimming pool. One time, my best friend Recalldo pool dovid. I died in the swimming pool. I thought, I felt I thought I was dying. I'm dying. I was drowning, drowning. I was drowning, and a friend of mine dumped in and saved my life. Saved your life, Ricardo Proud. I still I talked to him about that all the time, recalled when I was trying to talk to or somebody about oh that guy, good dude. You know she you have to be you know, okay, you're getting off. Yeah your birthday, yeah, anyway, anyway, you know, Harry birthday. Really I want to thank my wife for set me out. Hey, Marjorie, I can't tell it, but all I can tell you, Sixto, you got to do all that smiling man. Man, Man, my girl, she she just laid me out man. When she gave me for my birthday, Man, was just outstanding. There. You can't tell us what, Yeah, you got another plane? You got another damn no. Okay, my wife can't go buy no plane. You know the kind of meetings we had to hear to go do something. You can't just can't just go buy no damn plane. I wish, Oh, it's gonna happen one day. But now now, man, it's just you know what it is. Man. I talk to y'all because y'all friends of mine, and I know y'all will be happy for me, and I know a lot of my listeners will be happy for me. But you know, I keep a lot of stuff to myself because there's so many hayes. What you're doing all that for in the pandemic? Well, hell, it's still the pandemic. What you want us to stop doing? We can't stop living because it's the pandemic, you know. And and and you know what I learned at sixty four. In spite of the pandemic, God is still in the blessing business. There's some great things happening for some people, man, even in the middle of a global pandemic. And I happen to be one of those, because once again, I live my life in the expectation that God is gonna do something great for me, even on the heels of something going so bad and so wrong. I mean, man, you know, I've really grown as a person man to understand that when something goes wrong in my life, all I gotta do is right it out. Yeah, counted all joy. He always got something from me. On the other side, I ain't never seen him have something negative happened to me and it just stayed negative. He's turned every last one of my catastrophes intoward abundant blessing. I can truly say that today y'all seen me. Y'all have seen me. Oh yeah, oh yeah. You know how many times they have wrote me off? Yeah? Oh he finished, Nah, yeah, you don't know that God I served. Oh yeah, all right, Steve, we're gonna take it on over. Introduced please the news with ladies and gentlemen, Miss Anne Trup. Thank you very much, everybody, and here we go. Vice President elect Kamala Harris steps down today from her California Senate seat, and then, of course, in two days she used to make history as the first woman the first Black, the first East Indian, the first Asian to serve as vice president. She also becomes the President of the Senate. Now that's a largely ceremonial position, as you expect, but in a Senate split fifty fifty, which is what we have now, which we're going to have after January twentieth, Kamala Harris gets to cast a tie breaking vote, which would you know, as we assume, it would be in favor of the Democrat California Governor Gavin Newsom's picked Secretary of State Alex Padilla to replace her. That would make Padilla California's first Latino Senator, and get this, it's first mail US Senator in more than thirty years. Los Angeles County unfortunately hit a COVID milestone over the weekend. There are now more than one million confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the most populous California county, and the strain out of the UK is now in LA. Health officials say that this new variant is about fifty percent more contagious than the form we've been dealing with all this time. More contagious, not more deadly, but just more contagious, and the health experts also say it's likely that the new Bridge Child's version of the COVID is already spreading in southern California in the wake of the Capitol Hill riot. Meanwhile, and the run up to the election, armed groups did descend on a few state capitals yesterday, but no major problems were reported. Authorities in Lansing, Michigan, say, for instance, at about twenty armed men showed up outside the Capitol building. There were no violent incidents and no arrest. All the gunmen were gone by three pm. An armed group was also report outside of New Jersey's capital and Trenton yesterday. There were no arrest, but The New York Times reports that there were also some small anti government protests in Ohio, Oregon, Wisconsin, and Texas. The handful of Georgia state senators, by the way, who tried to negate the presidential election results have been stripped of their committee chairmanships. Lieutenant Governor Jeff Duncan, who happens to be a Republican, made that call, and now State Senator Brandon Beach of Alfreda has been removed as head of the Transportation Committee. Burne Jones of Jackson's been removed as head of the Insurance and Labor Committee. Matt Bass of Noonan is off the Reapportionment and Registrictream Committee. He will serve instead on the Banking and Financial Institutions Committee, which is described by the Atlanta Journal Constitution is really a lesser or less important position, So it's kind of demotion. Finally, since Donald Trump was the first president White House since one of the century, he didn't have a dog. Joe Biden's bringing two major and Champ both German shepherds, has already been an indauguration. Do you promise if joa Okay, just so you know, now back to the Steve Robby Morning Show. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Show. Happy King Holiday, Well, Steve, This Wednesday is the inauguration of the forty sixth president, President elected Joe Biden and the first African American woman President elect Harris We also yeah, I mean yeah, where can you say? We're so happy? We also just had a huge win in Georgia Senate runoff election with Reverend Raphael Warnock, pastor doctor Keaton Baptist Church and then a Jewish Democratic Senator John Assa. Well White is voting so important. I think it's important to talk about it on MLK Day as well. As we've proven in this election right here that when we make a decision as a people and we move as a people, we have far more power than we thought. Make no mistake about it, man, The young people that turned out for this election made a difference. The young people who turned out in this election who did not vote before made the difference. It started in Milwaukee when they turned around Wisconsin, but they wasn't really tripping right there. They went on over to Michigan and then asked where they This was the blue wall that they had to hold on to. And then Detroit showed up, and Lord have mercy, the vote changed it Detroit one, Michigan, and then it came down to Pennsylvania, and then Pennsylvania it got to Philly, and Philly w das one oh five point three sounds like Philly to base showed up man and clowned at them posed and they must around in one Pennsylvania, and then we came down here to Georgia, and then it got to Fulton County, Cobb County, Ginette County, all of them counties, Man and Fulton and all of a sudden, it was our turn. And then that black brown vote showed up and that turned the election. And then Georgia was one, and then we had a runoff, and we got to the runoff and you looked up at the polls and Left Lou was winning and Perdue was winning. And then the vote started coming in from them same counties again, and them same people showed up, but in bigger numbers, and all of a sudden we affected the election again. That's why voting is important, because we proved in this election that we moves the needle. And now they got to deal with us as a as a voting block next time, because we're powerful now. And they were so mad they counded Georgia three times, three times times, we lost three times, bought in computer's robots. Yeah, all right, coming up with thirty two minutes after the hour, we'll have more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show on the Sking Holiday right after this. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. Happy King Day, Well Steve. Back in nineteen sixty three, the late great Congressman John Lewis spoke at the March on Washington. Then twenty thirteen Congressman Lewis gave a speech to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary on the March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial. Here's an excerpt of mister Lewis's speech. Take a listen. Fifty years ago, fifty years ago, I stood right here in this spot, twenty three years old, had all of my hair and a few pins light off. So I come back here again, just said at those days, for the most part a gone. But we have another fight. We must stand up and fight the good fight. As we march today for the Air forces. They are people who want to take us back. We cannot go back. We come too far. We want to go forward. Back. In nineteen six, the three hundreds and thousand and millions of our brothers and sisters could not register to vote. When I stood here fifty years ago, I said, one man, one vote is African cry. It is ours tool. It must be ours. I also said, some people tell us to wait, tell us to be patient. I said, fifty years later, we cannot wait. We cannot be patient. We want jobs and we want our freedom now, all of us. It doesn't matter whether we are black or white, Latino Asian America, a native American. It doesn't matter whether we are straight a gay. We are one people. We are one family, we are one house. We all live in the same house. So I said to you, my brothers and sisters, we cannot give up. We cannot I give out, we cannot give in. We must get out there and push and pull them. Now, I a few short years ago, almost for the eight years ago, well for their years ago, almost fifty years ago, I gave a little blood on that bridge and sell my Alabama for the right to vote. I am not gonna stand by and let the Supreme Court take the right to vote away from us. You cannot stand by, you cannot sit down. You got to stand up, speak up, speak out, and get in the way, make some noise. The vote is precious, it is almost sacred. It is the most powerful non violent tool be having a democratic society. And we got to use that. Back in nineteen sixty three, we hadn't heard of the internet. We didn't have well sell your telephone, I pad our part. But we used what we had to bring about a non violent revolution. And I said to all of the young people, you must get out there and push and pull and make America what America should be for all of us. We must set to the Congress fix the voting right site. We must set to the Congress past comprehensive immigration reform. It doesn't make sense that million of our people are living in the shadow. Bring them out into the light and set them on a para to citizenship. So hanging there, keep the faith. I got the rest of forty times in the sixties beating, let bloody and unconscious. But I'm not tied, I'm not weary. I'm not prepared to sit down and give up, and ready to fight and continue to fight. And you must fight, thank you very much. I have a dream that we will unathought the King's real legacy, his last project, which was to wimp out malnutrition and not whip out the malnourished. Too much for war and violence and hatred. I have a dream that we in fact revived the war on poverty, affirmed the right to vote for all Americans, and student loan that forgiveness inspire youth to old good of college and make something happen in their lives and for our nations. You're listening to string show. 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 the growing economic insecured. 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 cut 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 is if poverty was an excuse for not raising your child, and the bigotry of others was reason to give up on yourself. 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 And it's there. When the native born recognizing that striving spirit of the new imprim 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 her 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 Appalachian 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 how's the homeless, and transform bleak waste, lands of poverty in the fields of commerce and promise America. I know of 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 and 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, They 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 let 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 luck. 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 him 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 new 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. If you are merchant, and that's the lesson of our past, that's the promise of tomorrow. And in the faith of impossible lives, people who love their country can change it. And when millions of Americans of every race, in 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, fraud. 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 in these powerful days, These days a challenging 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 her 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 air order the main ottery and once ups 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 open 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've 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 say it. 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 said 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 to Night. I want to say to Night that I too, am happy that I didn't sneeze, because if I had sneeze, I wouldn't have been around hid in nineteen sixty when students all over the South started sitting in at lunch counts, 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 Negroes and all been at Georgia decided to straighten that box up. And whenever men and women straighten that box up, they're 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 sixty 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 sneezed, 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 sleeve 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 delaye but we have doctor Mard 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 guard it all night. And then I got into Memphis and some began to say the threats a talk about the threats that while 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 mountain talk. 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 there with you, but 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 fivery inner man. Mine eyes have seen the glory overcoming 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. In 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 Pope the 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 poverty 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 inoe, to whichever the American was to fall air. This note was a promise at all men, yes, black men as 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 promise, or 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 refuse to believe that that are insufficient funds in the Great faults of opportunity of this nation. So we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us, upon demand, 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 sends of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time the reality for all of God's Still, 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 autumn 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 will have a rude awakening. If the nation returns to business as usual, thou will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the negro has granted 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 all right for 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 Steve Hardy Morning Shows 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 now in Alabama, little black bars and black girls, we'll 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 valace shall be exalted, every hill and mountains shall be made lord. The rough places would be made paint, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the corribel I shall be revealed in all shall see it together. This is our hope. This is a piece that I go back to the southwith. With this fan, we will be able to hear out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this fee, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this fan, 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 tearsity, sweet land of liberty, and be our sings, land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrim's pride. From every mountain side, Let freedom ring in Americas. 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 allegantors of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow cap rook is of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the crevacious slopes 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 side, Let freedom ring and wind. It happens when we allow freedom ring. When we letted ring, I'm every village and ever hamlet, from every state and ever si, we will be able to speed up that day when all about children, black men and white men, choos and ten piles, protistants and catholic we'll be able to join hands and singing the words of the old Nigro spiritual, Free at last, Free at last. Thank god you're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show. Steve, we gotta say happy belated birthday to you. Yesterday was your six fold like switched sixtyfold l your old man show it good? Yeah, you know it's hard, is hard to beat this fly at sixty fold. And I ain't lie to you. I felt like it, I said, man, but you know it all honestly, man, just number gratitude, man, because I'm gonna tell you man, it was just sometimes, man, I really didn't think I would c sixty four I mean, I've been laying on the street, and you know I wasn't I wasn't supposed to be here. A couple of times I died in the swimming pool. One time, my best friend recalled the pool dovid I died in the swimming pool. I thought, I felt. I thought I was dying, and I'm dying. I was drowning, drowning. I was drowning, and a friend of mine dumped in and saved my life, recalledo pood. I Still I talked to him about that all the time, recalled him when I was trying to talk to or somebody about Oh that guy. Yeah, good dude. You know she would rather be you know, okay off your birthday yea, anyway, anyway, you know I her birthday. Really, I want to thank my wife for or setting me out. Hey, Marjorie. I can't tell it, but all I can tell you is before you got all that smiling man, man, man, my girl, she she just laid me out. Man. When she gave me for my birthday, man was just outstanding. Here. You can't tell us, Yeah you got another plane, you're another damn plan. No, okay, my wife can't go buy no plane. You're the kind of meetings we had to hear to go do something. You can't just can't just go buy no damn plane. What I which, Oh, it's gonna happen one day, but now, no, man, it's just you know what it is. Man. I talked to y'all because y'all friends of mine, and I know y'all be happy for me, and I know a lot of my listeners would be happy for me. But you know, I keep a lot of stuff to myself because there's so many hayes. What you're doing all that for on the pandemic, Well, hell, it's still the pandemic. What you want us to stop doing. We can't stop living because it's the pandemic, you know. And and and you know what I learned at sixty four. In spite of the pandemic, God is still in the blessing business. There's some great things happening for some people, man, even in the middle of a global pandemic. And I happen to be one of those because once again, I live my life in the expectation that God is gonna do something great for me, even on the heels of something going so bad and so wrong. I mean, man, you know, I've really grown as a person man to understand it. When something goes wrong in my life, all I gotta do is ride it out. Yeah, he always got something from me. On the other side, I ain't never seen him have something negative happened to me and it just stayed negative. He's turned every last one of my catastrophes into an abundant blessing. I can truly say that today y'all seen me. Y'all have seen me. Oh yeah, oh yeah. You know how many times they have wrote me off? Yeah yeah, oh he finished, Nah, yeah, you don't know that. God I served. Yeah, you're listening to show well. The King Holiday is a day of service. So what are you guys doing to serve others? You know, food for thought. I know, Steve, you and your wife though, are always giving back. The Harvey Foundation did mentoring virtually this year due to the pandemic. Always giving back. I mean, you know, it's it's the one thing that I have to that I really tried to hang my hat on over the years, just like uh you with the breast cancer thing, and Timmy with the miles of giving, you know, Junior with the Sickle Sale Foundation, and Shirley um with with the walks and the domestic violences to everything. I'm sorry, I was trying to. I said, the walks and everything you know out there walk you know, circus, you know, you know flowers and you know and doing things. You know, but all of us, all of us are committed to different causes. And you know it's because you know, God, God blesses you to become a blessing, you know. So it's really not just me. I'm really proud of my entire team for working on the efforts that they work on. And I just command everybody out there that puts in work. You know, it's not just me, it's it takes an effort man, and a lot of people. Your your, your part plays a huge role in everything. So I say congratulations to everybody and keep giving, because that's the spirit of Mark Luther King. To be a great leader, you must first be a great follower and a great servant. All right, night from the back. Yes we'll be back with more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show right after this. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Happy King Day, Well Steve. Back in nineteen sixty three, the late great Congressman John Lewis spoke at the March on Washington. Then in twenty thirteen, Congressman Lewis gave a speech to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary on the March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial. Here's an excerpt of mister Lewis's speech. Take a listen. Fifty years ago I stood right here in this spot, twenty three years old, head, all of my hair and a few pines light off. So I come back here again, just said at those days, for the most part a gong. But we have another fight. We must stand up and fight the good fight as we march today. But the air forces, they are people who want to take us back. We cannot go back. We come too far. We want to go forward. Back. In nineteen sixty three, hundreds and thousand and millions of our brothers and sisters couldnt register to vote. When I stood here fifty years ago, I said, one man, one vote is African cry, it is ours too, It must be ours. I also said, some people tell us to wait, tell us to be patient. I said fifty years later, we cannot wait. We cannot be patient. We want jobs and we want our freedom. Now all of us. It doesn't matter whether we're black or white. Let you know, Asian America or Native American. It doesn't matter whether we're straight. Again, we are one people. We are one family, We are one house. We all live in the same house. So I said to you, my brothers and sisters, we cannot give up. We cannot give out, we cannot give in. We must get out there and push and pull them. Now. I a few short years ago, almost for the eight years ago, well for their years ago, almost fIF three years ago, I gave a little blood on that bridge and spell my Alabama for the right to vote. I am not gonna stand by and let the Supreme Court take the right to vote away from us. You cannot stand by, you cannot sit down. You got to stand up, speak up. We got and get in the way. Make some noise. All right, coming up, it is our last break of the day on this MLK day. We'll have some closing remarks. That's coming up at forty nine minutes after the hour. Right after this, you're listening to show all right here we are our last break of the day on this Martin Luther King Junior Day, twenty twenty one and Steve, you're right, we're here. We made it to twenty twenty one. Man, we made it. That's that's such a blessing man. And like I was saying the other day last week, you know, we we've been dealing so much with this riots and these terrorists and this Trump an attack and an impeachment and all like this. We forgot to celebrate twenty twenty one and now here we are halfway through the month, and we finally stopped for a moment to take a moment and breathe and celebrate Mara Luther King. And in closing, that's what I'm talking about. It's just Mark Luther King, man, I mean, one of the great men of our times, one of the great men in history. If you didn't like Mara Luther King's teachings because you were more of a violet, that's you. But that has never worked for us. It is His way was the absolute best way to accomplish what we were trying to get accomplished. He taught us something that I've remembered. You cannot conquer hate with more hate. The only way to conquer hate is with love. You can't put out a fire with more fire. Somebody got to bring water. You can't get rid of the darkness without light. The sun got to come up. Somebody got to strike a match. We need a light to battle darkness. If you're in the darkest cave in the world, if you just strike one match, you become the brightest glow. You provide the glimmer of hope. And all we have to do is try to remember what Doctor King was teaching us. To be light. Be light wherever you go. All of us can be light in your own particular way. You don't have to be a star to be light. You ain't gotta have no TV shows, no radio show. You ain't got to be an ig model. You ain't got to have the title. You can just be a light. I mean, we was little man. I was in this little gospel choir called the joy Landers, and the little song that they used to love to have us come up and saying was this little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine. That was a little kid's song. And we go up there singing it, man. And one time we got through singing, my mama asked me, because she was Sunday schools just Steve. Do you know what that means now? I said yeah, And she said, what doesn't mean? Said? I want to shine my light? She said, do you know what the light is referring to? I said, yeah, like a flashlight? You know, because I'm a little boy, what I know? She said, no, it's your attitude. She said, you want to be a person when you grow up that when you walk in the room, that you represent light, that people are glad when you walk in the room. Then she used an example. She said, you know sister Patterson. I said yes, ma'am. She said, you ever noticed when she walked in how everybody feel? I say, they'd be sad. Mama, she said, that's right. You know why I said no, She said, because she's negative. She said, but do you know how you feel her sister Abigail come in the room. I like Abigail, she said, everybody like it. You know why because she liked And she was just trying to teach me, in her own simple way, as a Sunday school teacher, of how to be And you know, it really was. And as I grew up and I got older, I remembered that song, this little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine. And I've tried to live my life. I've not always accomplished it, but I've tried to live my life. So when I walk in the room, I'm like, I don't ever want to walk in the room and people go, oh man, here he come, oh man, what he wants? And all of you know people like that, all of you know someone that every time they come in the room, man, you got to go here comes so and so. That's why they have that saying before somebody come over there, the question is who all over there? That's the first question, Hey man, you're coming through? Who all over there? Because they want to check to see if I'm walking into a light situation or i might having this great day and I'm gonna have to walk into some darkness. I choose to be light, man. We all choose to be light. Here. We come on this show in the morning to be light. This ain't a dark, gloomy show you tune into because we all of us recognize the fact that we have to provide a light no matter how day is going, no matter what bad news we got the night before. When we clicked this mic in the morning, we are the Steve Harvey Morning Show, and we got to be light. Now, let me tell you so, we feel the same woes and pains you feel it. We saw what they did to Aubrey. We saw what they did there George Floyd. We saw what having Brianna Taylor. But see, I'm sixty four years old. I saw what they did to mar Luther King. I saw what they did to Emmitt Till. I saw what they did to all these people. Man, I've been hearing about this stuff my whole life. I saw what they did to my grandfather. I saw what they did to my father. I saw what they did to my mother. I saw what I'm old enough I saw colored only water fountains. I'd have seen it. But in spite of all that, I choose to live my life as light. I'm not fitting the lecting. People who hateful and bigoted ruined me to where I become hateful and bigoted. Now I'm walking around. Ain't nobody glad to see me. I'm not gonna do that. Your hatred to me now, I'm not gonna tolerate your hatred to me. Don't get me wrong, But I choose to be light. I'm asking everybody be a light wherever you go and thank you for caring. Those are my clothes. Remark. Happy m l K Day to everybody out there be some light today, all right. 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.