Martin Luther King, Jr. at Oberlin

(Oberlin College Archives)

Commencement 1965: Rev. Dr. King stops to sign an autograph.

"All I'm saying is simply this: that all mankind is tied together; all life is interrelated, and we are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of identity. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what I ought to be until I am what I ought to be - this is the interrelated structure of reality."

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