Brian sez, "Washington Post reports that the King Foundation's aggressive control of copyrights to MLK's works means many students never hear the 'I Have a Dream' speech."
"It is doubly sad for people today who do not hear the speech," Swygert said. "It certainly was one of the great moments of American oratory. But young people today don't often hear the message of possibility, and the second half of the speech was all about possibility."..
"The more elite the institution, the easier it is to pay the mandatory fee," said David J. Garrow, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference" and now a history professor at Cambridge University.
"So, to use a King phrase, 'the least of these,' I'll say that the least of these among schools and students are those who cannot afford the least access to his teachings," he said.
(Thanks, Brian!)
Update: Get an MP3 of the speech here (Thanks, Colin!)
