The lyrics of The Battle Hymn of the Republic appear in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s sermons and speeches, most notably in his speech How Long, Not Long from the steps of the Alabama State Capitol building on March 25, 1965 after the 3rd Selma March, and in his final sermon I have Been to the Mountaintop, delivered in Memphis, Tennessee on the evening of April 3, 1968, the night before his assass