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"& when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village & every hamlet, from every state & every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men & white men, Jews & Gentiles, Protestants & Catholics, will be able to join hands & sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last, Free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last'".

- When it will happen, no doubt or uncertainty -- gives power / hope & strength
- Not only blacks, everyone else as well. .
- uses quotes from US songs & speeches

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"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct - action campaign that was "well - timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation" (191).

Never a time before -- a time now , never a "right time"

Even if he doesn't acc. it, pushing someone else to it

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James Earl Ray was a Hitler supporter & wanted an all - white America

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A school for poor children that is named after King in Uganda's capital, Kampala, took as its motto, "Have a Dream," borrowing a line from one of King's most famous speeches.

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In December 1965, King delivered a speech in New York denouncing South Africa's white rulers as "spectacular savages and brutes" and called on the U.S. and Europe to boycott the nation

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Today, the bust of King remains on display in a vastly different South Africa, which was transformed after anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was freed from prison in 1990 and elected the country's first black president four years later.

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At 6.01pm that evening Martin Luther King was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine.  A single shot was fired.  The bullet hit Dr King’s right cheek, shattering his jaw and several vertebrae and severing his spinal cord

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Ray’s fingerprints were found on a Remington .30-06 Gamemaster rifle dumped near the front of the boarding house.

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James Earl Ray died in prison, of natural causes, in 1998.

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"In my own life & in the life of a person who is seeking to be strong, you combine in your character anitheses strongly marked" (3).

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"When I was sudden;y catapulted into the leadership of the bus protest in Montgomery, Alabama, a few years ago, I felt we would be supported by the white church. I felt that the white ministers, priests, & rabbis of the South would be among our strongest allies" (199).

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"I shall never forgt the phone call my brother placed to me in Atlanta that violent Saturday night. His home had just been destroyed. Several people had been injured at the motel. I listened as he describedthe erupting tumult & catastrophe in the streets of the city. THen, in the background as he talked, I heard a swelling burst of beautiful sing. Feet planted in the rubble of debris, threatened by criminal violence & hatred, followers of the movement were singing "We Shall Overcome"" (215).

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"I am firmly committed to the creative power of nonviolence as the force which is capable of winning lasting & meaningful brotherhood & peace" (333).

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But in 2000, Kowalski who had previously been the prosecutor in proceedings against the Los Angeles police officers accused of beating Rodney King, sided with those who believed the government had nothing to do with the assassination.

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The committee claimed James Earl Ray had committed a bank robbery after his escape from prison, which might have helped explain how he had the money to go on the run and cross the Atlantic to England after the assassination.

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King was unable to visit South Africa after being denied a visa. But years later, a bust of King was slipped secretly — by diplomatic pouch — into a South Africa still in the grip of apartheid

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"If anyone had questioned how deeply the summer's activities had penetrated the conciousness of white America, the answer was evident in the treatment accorded the March on Washington by all the media of communication" (227).

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The committee raised the possibility of a conspiracy involving Ray’s two brothers John and Jerry, despite both men’s denials

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Africa's push for independence from colonialism, which mirrored King's own movement for racial equality in America, attracted the civil rights leader's attention and support.

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"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but the content of their character"