mr. goldwater and others who believe the legislation has no place.t may be true you cannot legislate integration, but you can legislate desegregation. it may be true that morality cannot be legislated, but the heavier can be regulated. it may be true that the law can't change the heart but it can restrain the heartless. it may be true that the law can make a man love me -- can't make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me. i think that is pretty important come also. >> martin luther king, jr. speaking in london december 7 1964. we will return to that speech after this break. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in this democracy now! exclusive, we return to martin luther king, jr. in his own words from a recording recently discovered by the pacifica radio archive. the speech given in london, december 7 1964, just days before dr. king received the nobel peace prize in oslo, norway. >> now as you know, we have been engaged in the united states in a massive struggle. and

goldwater. >> he is the man who earned and proudly carries the title of mr. conservative and is now mr. his campaign was painting the conservatives as extremists. and then my father followed up with his famous words about it. >> i would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. and let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. >> goldwater did not recognize that he was opening up a pandora's box. by saying that extremism could be a good thing, he was basically opening the door to the birchers and leftover ku klux klan and all these other groups that were beyond the pale. >> the head of the georgia klan came out for your ticket. do you accept their support? >> we don't want the backing of the ku klux klan. >> that's a different kind of extremist, and my father would have none of it. >> a thoughtful address by ronald reagan. >> thank you. i have spent most of my life as a democrat. i recently have seen fit to follow another course. >> ronald reagan was an actor, but it was in 1964 that suddenly he explodes on to the national scene as a

goldwater and his people didn't really welcome into the fold. >> newscaster: ladies and gentlemen, we take pride in presenting a thoughtful address by ronald reagan. mrationally televised speech. the goldwater people didn't want to pay for it. they didn't want to do it. so reagan went out and raised the money and aired the speech himself. >> ronald reagan: and this idea that government is beholden to the people -- that it has no other source of power, except the sovereign people -- is still the newest and the most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. this is the issue of this election -- whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the american revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. >> mann: the speech was called "a time for choosing," which may be ronald reagan's best speech ever, and that's saying a lot for ronald reagan, 'cause he gave a lot of great speeches. but this speech was a masterpiece. and it probably made the best case for barry goldwater that anybody, including barry goldwat