Martin Luther King Jr. s Mountaintop speech offers hope to an angry nation
Tallahassee Democrat 1/18/2021 Tallahassee Democrat
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This excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr. s I Have Been To The Mountaintop speech has particular resonance today. Delivered to a church packed with workers in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 3, 1968, the speech would prove eerily prophetic. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated the next day. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around. That s a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century in a way that men, in some strange way, are responding.