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EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD human beings of every color, persuasion, and ethnicity dream …

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MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. (1929-1988), American Clergyman, Activist, and Leader of the American Civil-Rights Movement

Delivering I Have a Dream, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. U.S.A.

No one articulated the dream of human dignity with quite the same poetry and passion as Martin Luther King, Jr.

When we let freedom 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!”

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Editorial Note: We humans struggle for freedom in many circumstances and many places. In November of the same year that Dr. King delivered this speech, the first world-wide Prisoner of Conscience Week was honored. Such events remind us that no wo/man is truly free until all are free. 

MAY ALL SENTIENT BEINGS FIND PEACE

The photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr. is in the public domain and is viewed here courtesy of Wikipedia. The video of Dr. King was uploaded to YouTube by . The Joyful Noise gospel acapella group was uploaded to YouTube by .

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