An academic prodigy who entered Morehouse College in 1944 when he was 15 years old, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was not just a man of great wisdom, but a man whose mastery of the written and spoken word enabled him to share his wisdom in a manner that made his sharing one of the most unforgettable experiences of our lives. Although his sonorous "I Have a Dream" speech contains his most famous words, as a Neoskeptic I have always been more impressed by the quiet brilliance of his carefully reasoned "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" introduced below.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
"6 April 1963
My Dear Fellow Clergymen:
While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms" ... Please click here for the rest of Dr. King's letter. Thank you.
I Have a Dream ...
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