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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 4 the stars and stripes april 6, i a i 1c they kill us we have power9 or. King had Learned to live with danger Atlanta a. A when the Mantle of negro leadership fell on the shoulders of Martin Luther King jr., death fell in behind him to dog his Steps until a Bullet found its Mark 13 years later. King Long beforehand Learned to live with the threat of  t Stop singing he had exhorted negroes at a Church rally in Birmingham ala., Only a few weeks before he was killed. Let s have a Quality Evenin the midst of our suffering he said. King had the Quality of being gentle with courage to speak his  have a weapon so Power Ful they just Don t know what to do with it he once said of nonviolence. Even if they Killus we have  King received Many honors climaxed with the Nobel peace prize of 1964 he influenced presidents met with Heads of state yet could arouse the Field hands the masses. He received his . Degree from Boston University in 1955, the year he be  the Boycott of segregated uses in Montgomery. Ala. But the award King wanted most for his efforts was the end of discrimination and deprivation. In 1962 he was saying i will not be satisfied until segregation is dead in  1968, he said the Plant of Freedom has grown Only Abud and not a Flower. The last three decades did t  As a boy King Learned of racism in Atlanta where he was born Jan. 15, 1939. He had two White playmates until their Mother Learned of the association. It was when he was 15 thanking was returning from the state finals of an oratorical con test at Valdosta ga., and was ordered by the Driver to move to the Back of the bus. King stood up All the Way to  was the beginning of my determination to Lead a bus Boycott he said later. The boy Cott came in 1955 to Montgom Ery. It catapulted the Young Baptist preacher into world prominence and was a year. Long prelude to court ordered desegregation of the buses. Went to jail in that struggle. We have been saddened presi Dent Johnson addresses the nation say ing we have been saddened by the slay ing of or. Martin Luther King or. King is shown As he spoke at the masonic Temple in Memphis on wednesday night a world concerned for peace in u. S. By the associated press the assassination of civil rights Leader or. Martin Luther King shocked the  London to Delhi from Johannesburg to Moscow news of the murder brought stunned reaction and a deep sense of concern bordering on fear for the peace of the United  bewildered London Wom an said president Kennedy i Dallas. Now  new Delhi prime minister Indira Gandhi said King s death is a setback to Mankind search for the  she Ca bled mrs. King to Tell her the whole of India is with  Beirut of my god in t it terrible cried one of the leading members of the american Community. A Leban Ese housewife on the verge of tears said what s wrong with the americans Geneva . Secretary general u. Thant heard of the tragedy As he arrived for official .  is a terrible Shock to me. I was deeply deeply shocked when i heard of it after step Ping off the plane Here a moment a of he said. Vatican City Pope Pauli who met the civil rights Leader at the Vatican in 1964,was Given the news soon after he woke. Aides described Hamas shocked and  Moscow the soviet Union s Tass news Agency in a dispatch from new York said the news of the foul crime has winged across the whole of the country. New York s har Lem the negro District is in  called the shooting a racist  Autv Israel s foreign minister Abba Eban said  was an historic figure in pared the death with Kennedy assassination. It declared America is living a moment similar to that of nov. 22, 1963." Brussels belgian prime minister Paul Van Den Boleyn ants said the assassination offing is monstrous. Its consequences. Will be impossible to foresee. The madness of a few in message to mrs. King declared her husband Wilt Long be remembered by All peace Loving Peoples of the  Bonn West German govern ment spokesman Gunter Diehl said King s 1964 visit to Ger Many and the Gallant and mov ing words he spoke. Remain deep in our  Rome italian president Giu in Albany Fla. In 1when negro crowds hurled i her and Bra cow at  suspended his marches and called Day of penance Gold through the poolroom collect ing knives and other weapons we cannot win this Strug with bottles and bricks said. King returned to Alabama Fortis 1963 Birmingham Campaign symbolized by the use of police dogs and fire hoses on demonstrators leading to enactment of the 194 Civ rights act that opened places of Public accommodations. In 1964 he led a drive in St. Augustine Fla. Arrested in the Florida Campaign King was hauled away in a Ponce a few Acona Clara Poat aaa paid at new York . Tha Appa Armanoo of Duplay Advertus menu in Thia Mia paper concerning commercial publication Doaa not constitute an an  
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