Leid Stories - By No Means A Dreamer - 01/15/13

He was born on Jan. 15, 1929, so Leid Stories honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. today. The Nobel laureate delivers a timeless and prophetic speech, calling all people of conscience to be fearless agents of change. In the United States, he says, it means battling "the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation."

This speech was delivered at Riverside Church in New York City exactly a year before his assassination on April 4, 1968. King, by no means a dreamer, by then had exponentially ratcheted up his activism, from mobilizing to organizing the masses.