Martin Luther King, Jr.'s last speech

This old film clip of Dr. King's last speech on April 3rd 1968 at Mason Temple, the Church of God in Christ Headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee still sends shivers down my spine. Dr. King foretold of his own untimely death which came the next day from an assasin's bullet as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Years earlier Dr. King led the famous March on Washington where his address to the masses gathered there was televised before the nation as he stood before the Lincoln memorial to remind us of this nation's great calling to "Let Freedom Ring". He challenged the nation as he quoted the prophet Amos in the fifth chapter, the twenty-fourth verse to not be satisfied until, "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream." He later said during that moving speech, "And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of
Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that:
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow 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 the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

There shall not be another inspiring and compelling leader like him in our lifetime.