It was the last speech of his life, the speech Martin Luther King Jr. gave on April 3, 1968. It was a radically Christian speech in, of all places, a church: Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, central headquarters of the Church of God in Christ. Like so many of King's speeches, it had a lot of Bible references, this one more than most. Indeed, it bordered on becoming a sermon as he spent critical moments taking apart—and bringing alive—Scripture.
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