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Day of Affirmation Address at Cape Town University
"A Tiny Ripple of Hope"
delivered 6 June 1966, Jameson Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
[AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio (2)]
Mr. Chancellor, Mr. Vice Chancellor, Professor Robertson, Mr. Diamond, Mr. Daniel, and Ladies and Gentlemen:
I come here this evening because of my deep interest and affection for a land settled by the Dutch in the mid-seventeenth century, then taken over by the British, and at last independent; a land in which the native inhabitants were at first subdued, but relations with whom remain a problem to this day; a land which defined itself on a hostile frontier; a land which has tamed rich natural resources through the energetic application of modern technology; a land which once the importer of slaves, and now must struggle to wipe out the last traces of that former bondage. <span style="font-weight: bold">I refer, of course, to the United States of America.</span>
go read di ress down so..mi was watching di documentary last nite n had forgot how powerful his speech was....he started it this way an woke dem up indeed...
two years later he was dead....sigh
Day of Affirmation Address at Cape Town University
"A Tiny Ripple of Hope"
delivered 6 June 1966, Jameson Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
[AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio (2)]
Mr. Chancellor, Mr. Vice Chancellor, Professor Robertson, Mr. Diamond, Mr. Daniel, and Ladies and Gentlemen:
I come here this evening because of my deep interest and affection for a land settled by the Dutch in the mid-seventeenth century, then taken over by the British, and at last independent; a land in which the native inhabitants were at first subdued, but relations with whom remain a problem to this day; a land which defined itself on a hostile frontier; a land which has tamed rich natural resources through the energetic application of modern technology; a land which once the importer of slaves, and now must struggle to wipe out the last traces of that former bondage. <span style="font-weight: bold">I refer, of course, to the United States of America.</span>
go read di ress down so..mi was watching di documentary last nite n had forgot how powerful his speech was....he started it this way an woke dem up indeed...
two years later he was dead....sigh