04 April 2014

Remembering the 46th Anniversary of Martin Luther King's Last Public Words


“The tyrant dies and his rule is over;  the martyr dies and his rule begins.”

Søren Kierkegaard

Martin Luther King gave this speech on 3 April 1968 at the Church of God in Christ, in Memphis, Tennessee.
 



On 4 April 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.




"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and abuse those whom God has sent as messengers to you.

How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her young under her wings. But you would not let me.

As you willed, your house is now yours— but is made desolate
.’”