Martin Luther King’s Prophetic Last speech
Dr. King continued to advocate for the poor and mistreated until the end (he was in Memphis to protest low pay for black garbage collectors). He declares “I just want to do God’s will” on the night before he was assassinated.
Click here to read some interesting context to this speech. Here is an excerpt:
In a speech Benjamin Hooks delivered a decade after King’s death (also featured in this anthology), he recalled King’s final sermon: “I remember that night when he finished, he stopped by quoting the words of that song that he loved so well, ‘Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.’ He never finished. He wheeled around and took his seat and to my surprise, when I got a little closer, I saw tears streaming down his face. Grown men were sitting there weeping openly because of the power of this man who spoke on that night.”
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