Cenk Uygur
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Martin Luther King's Last Speech: "I've Been To The Mountaintop"
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2:38Now PlayingAn excerpt of Martin Luther King's last speech. He delivered it on April 3, 1968, at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee. The next day, King was assassinated.
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King was in Memphis to support the sanitation workers' strike, a protest against dangerous working conditions and poor wages. At the time, King was also organizing the Poor People’s Campaign, aiming to shift the civil rights movement toward economic justice and addressing systemic poverty across racial lines. Despite threats against his life and poor weather that evening, King spoke to a packed church with fiery conviction.
The most haunting and memorable part of the speech came at the end, when King spoke about the possibility of his own death: “I've been to the mountaintop... And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land!”
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