The Time Is Always Right To

Spoken at Oberlin College in Ohio on October 22, 1964, in a speech titled "The Future of Integration," delivered to an audience of 2,500. It was one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s first public appearances after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize earlier that month. The speech addressed the turbulent state of civil rights in a year that had seen riots in multiple American cities and the murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi.