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359: Martin Luther King's Dream

The Rest Is History

CHAPTER

The Freedom Ring

He is invoking their millennia worth of aspirations for justice. And these are aspirations that are shared by white Christians. So people listening to it who have been hitherto unmoved by the civil rights movement, there's nothing here that they could possibly object to. He ends with this geographical tour of the union. Let freedom ring from every hill and mole hill of Mississippi from every mountain side. The amazing thing about as Gary Young points out in his book is that this passage was just 301 words long. It's less than a fifth of the total speech.

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