Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes
Freedom is one thing. You have it all or you are not free.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Address at the Freedom Rally in Cobo Hall." 23 June 1963, Detroit, MI.
The Iroquois were very sophisticated diplomatically and had appointed Garangula, a chief of one of the Iroquois tribes, to be their Ambassador Plenipotentiary in negotiations with the French. The French had a number of complaints one of which was that the Iroquois had brought English traders into areas that the French regarded as their hegemony. Yonnondio was the name the Indians had given to the La Barre and Corlear, another powerful French Official. The French had threatened the Iroquois with war. In polite diplomatic terms, Garangula told the French to mind their own business and if war was what they wanted, war would be. Actually, the Iroquois had a more formidable and better organized military capability than did the French at that time. The French did not realize the sophistication of the Iroquois the way the English did, and thought that they could easily be intimidated. Note the Iroquois emphasis on their freedom.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King advanced civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi. He was the son of early civil rights activist Martin Luther King Sr.
