you can see mahatma ghandi is back in the 1920s, 30s, they're operating on the same principle. quite remarkable. i couldn't hope for a better example. guide he says, my reading of the quran has convinced me that the faces of islam is not violence but is unadulterated peace. which is exactly the same rentable that others were operating on also. it's quite remarkable that he took the step of trying to get his possible killer that some people want so badly, clemency. this is quite a remarkable moment to be talking about what i'm talking about, because just two months away, we're just two months away from the killing of osama bin laden. hopefully it's not the ending of al qaeda, debilitating of al qaeda, they have a new leader. but i would hope that his passing at age is literal and symbolic. at the same time that such an exciting time to be in because 2011 has been an incredibly momentous year for the exact opposite of the philosophy that osama bin laden was espousing. and that is nonviolence. if i speaking with you even late last year about pacifism, i would have to slay myself.

king had been inspired by mahatma ghandi, whose nonviolence resistance ended a century of british rulehis quote on a well-worn scrap of paper. >> ghandi speaks for us in the midst of death, life persists. in the midst of darkness, life persists. >> then king wrote -- >> we are today in the midst of death and darkness. we can strengthen life and live by our personal acts, by saying no to violence, by saying yes to life. >> that night, dr. king spoke to an overflow crowd at a black church. >> but he talked about death more than i ever heard him talk about it at any one given. >> i don't know what will happen now. we've got some difficult days ahead. it really doesn't matter with me now, because i've been to the mountain top. >> andrew young told me it was a speech dr. king often made when times were dangerous. >> because he'd done it before and we'd gone on to the next place, i wasn't really taking it serious. it was just a great speech. but i never thought i was listening to his last speech. >> so i'm happy tonight, i'm not worried about anything, i'm not fearing any man! mine eyes have