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I realize that it is a dangerous practice, perhaps even subversive, to talk about brotherhood in March.
Brotherhood Postponed (1965)
I marveled again at the power of the federal government whose presence stood between us and another massacre.
Brotherhood Postponed (1965)
When King speaks, you are not an audience. You are participants. And when he finished we were ready to march.
Brotherhood Postponed (1965)
It was a deeply moving, deeply religious, and totally non-sectarian service.
Brotherhood Postponed (1965)
I think I went to Alabama to worship God! I know that is what I did on U.S. Highway 80, along with 6,000 men and women, boys and girls, each of whom in his own way was doing the same thing.
Brotherhood Postponed (1965)
We came to the bridge which had marked the terminal point of two previous attempts. On one of those attempts, King had turned his people back at this spot. On the other attempt, the state troopers had ridden into the crowd with clubs, and bullwhips, and tear gas.
Brotherhood Postponed (1965)
Brotherhood postponed. Dear friends, brotherhood has been postponed for a very long time. Not by the coldness of the weather, but by the coldness of the heart. The task of religion, your religion and mine, is to practice brotherhood, not talk about it.
Brotherhood Postponed (1965)