What Martin Luther King Jr. Said About Walls During His 1964 Visit to Berlin
"For here on either side of the wall are God’s children and no man-made barrier can obliterate that fact"/ Berlin was perhaps destined to be a meaningful place for Martin Luther King Jr.; it was the And for a man who preached against walls that “divided humanity,” a 1964 visit to the then-three-year-old Berlin Wall, which divided the Soviet-occupied East side of the city and the U.S.-occupied West side of the city, offered a chance to add another layer to that significance. The visit came about after West Berlin’s Mayor Willy Brandt invited ...
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