Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
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All human life is a warfare; the Christian life is the most so; but the struggle will not last always. Troubles are removed in love, when sin is pardoned.
Isaiah 40:4 quoted in popular culture
- I Have a Dream
Speech Verified march address Aug 28, 1963 -
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom · Martin Luther King Jr. · King fused Isaiah's leveling vision with Amos's river of justice in the most famous movement of the speech.
King Institute: Freedom's Ring 'I Have a Dream' speech National Archives: March on Washington transcript excerpt
- Alabama
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- August 28
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- Georgia (U.S. state)
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- Isaiah
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- Karl Barth
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- Martin Luther King Jr.
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- Mississippi
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- Preparation
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- Southern United States
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- Tanakh
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