“A Christian movement in an age of revolution cannot allow itself to be limited by geographic boundaries. We must be as concerned about the poor in India as we are about the poor of Indiana.”

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

1960s, A Christian Movement in a Revolutionary Age (1965)

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