But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. And I've looked over and I've seen the Promised Land. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life-longevity has its place.
But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop. “I don't know what will happen now we've got some difficult days ahead.
The better-known part of King’s speech was its conclusion. And I knew that as they were sitting in, they were really standing up for the best in the American dream and taking the whole nation back to those great wells of democracy, which were dug deep by the founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution,” he said. Because if I had sneezed I wouldn't have been around here in 1960, when students all over the South started sitting-in at lunch counters. “I want to say tonight that I, too, am happy that I didn't sneeze. He told the audience about how he survived a 1958 assassination attempt by a mentally deranged woman named Izola Ware Curry, who stabbed King in the chest at a New York book signing. He spoke at the Bishop Charles Mason Temple to a group of supporters-knowing that there were threats made against his life. On April 3, 1968, King was in Memphis to support a movement seeking better compensation for black sanitation workers. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.” King also donated his prize money of $54,123 to the civil rights movement. His acceptance speech in Norway included the famous statement, “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. In 1964, King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, at the time the youngest Peace Prize winner ever at the age of 35. Starting with the Montgomery boycott in 1955, King had led a series of nonviolent protests against discrimination. At the age of 39, he was already an internationally known figure. On the day of his death, King was in Tennessee to help support a sanitation workers’ strike. The world has changed greatly since 1968, but King’s message survives intact. was killed by an assassin’s bullet in Memphis. It was on this day in 1968 that civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
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