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Why Didn’t They Stop? Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Parable of the Good Samaritan

Forty-four years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. The day before he was killed, he delivered his last speech to a crowd of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee. In it, he recasts this parable of the Good Samaritan in a thought-provoking way.

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