the part that Martin Luther King Jr. says partway through the song is taken from a famous speech of his, with most of the words shown here... //// "When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last!" ///
the part that Martin Luther King Jr. says partway through the song is taken from a famous speech of his, with most of the words shown here... //// "When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last!" ///
for more on that speech go to http://mlht.ffii.org/demo/pacnaen.html