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Famous Quote from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

"This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning:

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring."



By:

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (more quotes by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. or books by/about Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)


(1929-1968) US civil rights leader

Source:

Speech delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963.
http://libertytree.ca/docs/FreeAtLast
See also, Rev Archibald Carey speech, where this quote originated:
http://libertytree.ca/quotes/Archibald.Carey.Quote.F705

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Faith, Family, Freedom, Justice, Peace, Rights, Tyranny, Liberty, God, America, Black, Death, Children

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