Martin Luther King Jr. -- In His Own Words

Lest we forget: Here is Rev. Martin Luther King's Nobel Prize acceptance speech and here, of course, is his I Have a Dream speech.

Tomorrow, as we celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States, it is interesting to revisit the close of the Rev. King's address at the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963:

"When we allow freedom to 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!'"