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More prescient today in America than “I Have a Dream.”

“I come to say to you this afternoon, however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because truth crushed to earth will rise again.

How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever.

How long? Not long, because you shall reap what you sow.

How long? Not long: Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,

Yet that scaffold sways the future.”
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https://youtu.be/NwdHeylre6c?si=r64lplqgjDfubK4i

Tofu Musubi

@Hawaii@mastodon.world replied · 5 days ago

@Deglassco
Excellent message! And this reminded me of "Wake Up" By Rage Against The Machine... the last lyrics he sings are "How long? Not long, because what you reap is what you sow."

Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco

@Deglassco@mastodon.social replied · 5 days ago

Full speech

Source: Martin Luther King Jr., “Our God Is Marching On!” speech delivered at the Alabama State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama, March 25, posted March 16, 2016, by The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change,
https://youtu.be/geBcwI4GYXw?si=-Vl1YngenGe93Hil

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Martin Luther King Jr., “How Long? Not Long” (speech, March 25, 1965), Voices of Democracy, University of Maryland, accessed January 19, 2026,
https://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-long-not-long-speech-text/

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Voices of Democracy

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "How Long? Not Long" Speech Text - Voices of Democracy

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., “HOW LONG? NOT LONG” (25 MARCH 1965) [1] My dear and abiding friends, Ralph Abernathy, and to all of the distinguished Americans seated here on the rostrum, my friends and co-workers of the state of Alabama, and to all of the freedom-loving people who have assembled here this afternoon from […]

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