mr. goldwater and others who believe that legislation has no place. it may be true that you can't legislate integration, but you can legislate desegregation. it may be true that morality cannot be legisled, but behavior 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't make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me. and i think that's pretty important also. amy goodman: dr. martin luther king jr., speaking in london on december 7, 1964. we'll return to that speech after this break. [break] amy goodman: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in this democracy now! exclusive, we return to dr. 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. rev. martin luther king jr.: now, as you know, we have been engaged in the united states in

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