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Speech Delivered at the Commencement Exercises at Trinity College, Washington, D.C.

June 2, 1963

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Washington, D.C.

In the light of a truly freed mind no prejudice can disguise itself as zeal, no bullying can masquerade as leadership, no pettiness can pose as importance. The freed mind will never confuse a sentimentality with a true emotion, an act of violence with an act of heroism, a slogan with a cause. Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they can’t be intimidated. They may be perplexed, they will never be lost.