Dateline: Negro equality: Martin Luther King speech

Dateline: Negro equality; 2) ENGLAND: London: City Temple Hall: CS/Side: DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR: SOF: - Noticing the developments, noticing what has been happening, noticing what was being done on the part of his black brothers and sisters in Africa, gave him a new sense of dignity in the United States and a new sense of self-respect. The negro came to feel that he was somebody, his religion revealed to him that God loves all His children, and that all men are made in His image, and that the basic thing about a man is not his specificity but his fundamental, not the texture of his hair or the colour of his skin, but his eternal dignity and worth. You saw the negro in America, can now cry out unconsciously with the elephant boy, "Fleecy locks and black complexion, cannot forfeit Nature's claim. Skin may differ, but affection dwells in black and white the same. Were I so tall as to reach the Pole, or to grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul." The mind is the standard of the man, and with this new sense of dignity and this new sense of self-respect, a new negro came into being with a new determination to suffer, to struggle, to sacrifice, and even to die if necessary in order to be free. And this reveals that we have come a long, long, way. TS Audience: CS/Side: DR KING: CONT: - Housing discrimination - joblessness, and the factor of segregation in the public schools, and so the ghetto conditions that exist make for many problems, and it makes for hard carem de facto segregation that we must grapple with on a day-to-day basis, And so this is the problem that we face, this is the problem that we are forced to deal with. And we are going to deal with it, in a determined way. I am absolutely convinced (Interruption) that segregation is one of its deathbed, and that those who represent it whether they be in the United States, or whether they be in London England, the system is on its deathbed. CS Man: MS Audience: TS Audience clap: ...