"Yet our best trained, best educated, best prepared, best equipped"

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

"troops refuse to fight. In fact it's safe to say that they would rather switch ... then fight."

Who said this?

[eileen_d]

1. Well if your question was "who sampled this"

I could answer... ;)

[SahaleArm]

8. Public Enemy

Fear of a Black Planet; rap hasn't been the same since;).

On Edit: Was it Fight the Power that sampled this bit?

[Soldier]

2. I am waiting with baited breath

for the answer.

[QC]

3. Khallid Abdul Muhammad

[frank frankly]

4. Martin Luther King, Jr.

courtesy of Public Enemy

gives me the chills every time I listen to it...which is often.

[QC]

10. Are you sure it's MLK?

According to this discussion it's Khallid Abdul Mohammad.

[frank frankly]

5. hey, give some props, WCTV!

:hi:

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

6. thank you frank

Yes, I admit, I heard it first from Public Enemy. I humbly plead ignorance of the original source but always assumed it was MLK due to the voice - so where can I get the speech? - I obviously missed a whole lot here!

[frank frankly]

7. I don't have the whole speech

but it was supposidly said a few days before his murder.

I wish everyone at DU could hear him say it. Chills.

Sometimes I start my day with that, sometimes Tracy Chapman Talking About a Revolution, these days its a whole lot of "Peace Frog" and "Unknown Soldier."

No one spoke like MLK.

"Words can make the walls cave in." dead prez

[T Bone]

9. was this about troops in Vietnam ?

I never heard the speech or heard that there were troops refusing to fight. Maybe MLK was aware of some tuth that was not making the mainstream at the time. I did read a book a long time ago about Vietnam era soldiers who CHOSE to stay in Vietnam, or moved there later. Not a huge number, but there are quite a number who took Vietnam as their country after a tour of duty.

[CWebster]

11. So I have heard

they are refusing to go back in greater numbers.