The wonderful synthesized song made of outtakes from the great Martin Luther Kings speech.
I did not make this video, but I did write the lyrics down for you:

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley
of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands
of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
Now,now,now
Now is the time, now is the time

I have a dream every valley shall be exalted
I have a dream every hill and mountain shall be made low
I have a dream today, my children will not be judged by the color of their skin

This is our rule

I have a dream the rough places will be made plain
I have a dream the crooked places will be made straight
There is something that I must say
We can not turn back
I have a dream today

And if America is 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 Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!

Let freedom rain, let freedom, let freedom, freedom rain.

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring,
when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet,
from every state and every city,
We will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children,
black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics,
will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual,
“Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

I have a dream every valley shall be exalted
I have a dream every hill and mountain shall be made low
I have a dream today, my children will not be judged by the color of their skin

This is our rule

I have a dream the rough places will be made plain
I have a dream the crooked places will be made straight
There is something that I must say
We can not turn back
I have a dream today

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Black Populism in the New South, “Transforming America,” on PBS

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This is the title of the book I’m writing with some of my colleagues in the Log Cabin Republicans. We first assert that modern conservatives are fakes, and that true conservatism advocates smaller government, which means not letting the government regulate marriage unless the people consent to it or ask for it. We also go on using Abraham Lincoln and the 1950’s-60’s black civil rights movement to defend our identification as conservative Republicans despite our views on homosexuality.

The conservative approach to the gay rights movement lies in sharp contrast to the current liberal approach. The conservative way advocates populism over elitism. This means swaying the misinformed public to support things like same-sex marriage and denouncing the liberal elitist methods of judicial activism.

The conservative approach also does not advocate hate crime legislation. I say that the goal is "EQUAL rights, not tipping the unequal balance to the other end." We use the Penal Code and USC to prove that crimes against homosexuals are already prosecuted under current statutes and that we must be punishing the crime itself, not the criminals belief system.

Pretty much this approach advocates civil rights of LGBT Americans, but unlike the liberal approach, it does not do it at the expense of others rights.
I agree that Pride is a good thing but I don’t support flamboyance in homosexual males becuase it further advances the belief in negative stereotypes.
True, same-sex marriage does not harm the rights of others, but using judicial activism as the method of implementing it is where the harm is done.
Another thing we do is expose Barack Obama as a homophobe who proudly said he believes marriage should only be between a man and a woman. The LGBT community hanging on to him is a hoax.
I would be a Libretarian if it was a major party. The Republican Party used to be a Libretarian Party and that’s what our goal is to bring it back to that.
The GOP was just the lesser of two evils for me. The Democratic a.k.a. the Socialist Party abhors me while conservatism believes in small government and expanding civil rights. The current fake conservatives need to outsted and replaced in order to really "Change" America.

The Democratic lies:
-What was the Democrat Party founded on? The Party was founded on the two S’s: Slavery and Segregation. It’s funny how you say the Republicans want to go back to slavery when it’s the Democratic Party who was implenting it and GOP were the liberators. The newest S: Socialism.
-Good homes and food? More like create welfare dependency in order to create a voting constituency. Who the hell lives a "good" life in the hood?
-Healthcare? More like sick care. Thank you very much but the last thing I want is the government telling me who my doctor will be. A safety net is acceptable and needed but not a complete socialist system.
-Right to choose? More like right to kill an "inconvenient" baby.

The book might be worth a read, but it will have zero influence in the Republican Party. Any issue (like gay rights) that doesn’t resonate with the belief system of the Religious Right will be politely ignored, at best.

And you are correct to assert that today’s Republicans are not true conservatives. When in power, they resort to the same ham-handed tactics, runaway spending, and over-regulation as the Democrats.