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'Free at last,' Mandela said, quoting King Aug 20th 2013, 23:15 JOHANNESBURG — The speaker, one of the world's most recognizable black leaders, was addressing a joint session of the U.S. Congress when he quoted America's top civil rights leader. "Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty we are free at last," Nelson Mandela said to a standing ovation, quoting words delivered in a speech whose 50th anniversary comes next week. Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr. never met but they fought for the same cause at the same time on two continents. Mandela said he was prepared to die to see his dream of a society where blacks and whites were equal become reality. King was assassinated in 1968 while working for that same dream. Mandela spent 2... Keep on reading: ‘Free at last,’ Mandela said, quoting King Media files: martin-luther-king-jr.jpg (image/jpeg)

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