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From the first King had liked to cite these same inspiration passages. "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" is from the writings of Theodore Parker the Unitarian abolitionist minister who was King's favorite theologian. Compare the transcript of this 1957 speech given in Washington, D.C."Give Us the Ballot". Address Delivered at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, Washington D.C. 17 May 1957..

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Boyer, Horace Clarence (Autumn 1983). "Charles Albert Tindley: Progenitor of Black-American Gospel Music". The Black Perspective in Music. 11 (2): 103–132. doi:10.2307/1214908. ISSN 0090-7790. JSTOR 1214908.
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