Martin Luther King Jr.i
Born Jan 15, 1929

Oberlin College, June 14, 1965, "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution" Martin Luther King Jr. builds the whole address on Rip Van Winkle, pointing out that the remarkable thing is not that Rip slept 20 years but that he "slept through a revolution." The image is simple enough to remember for…

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