By midnight she would be dead - shot while driving a black man home from the demonstration. O, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant my feet!Īmong those listening to King's speech was Viola Liuzzo, a white mother of five who had traveled from Detroit to join the march. He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat. He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat He has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord How long? Not long, because you shall reap what you sow.īecause the arc of the moral universe is long, How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever. I come to say to you this afternoon, however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because truth crushed to earth will rise again. I know you are asking today, 'How long will it take?' Somebody's asking, 'How long will prejudice blind the visions of men?'. We are on the move now.Like an idea whose time has come, not even the marching of mighty armies can halt us.We are moving to the land of freedom. The wanton release of their known murderers would not discourage us. The bombing of our homes will not dissuade us.The beating and killing of our clergymen and young people will not divert us. The burning of our churches will not deter us. Yes, we are on the move and no wave of racism can stop us. Today I want to tell the city of Selma, today I want to say to the state of Alabama, today I want to say to the people of America and the nations of the world, that we are not about to turn around. And there were those who said that we would get here only over their dead bodies, but all the world today knows that we are here and we are standing before the forces of power in the state of Alabama saying, 'We ain't goin' let nobody turn us around'. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Last Sunday, more than eight thousand of us started on a mighty walk from Selma, Alabama. reassured a gathering of 25,000 people that the days of Southern white brutality were waning. The journey ended on Thursday, March 25 with a rally at the Alabama state capitol, below the window of Governor George Wallace.
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