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The passionate advocate for civil and human rights, Martin Luther King, Jr.(1929-1968)spoke on the campus of Iowa State University on January 22, 1960. His keynote statement was "We have allowed our mentality to outrun our morality and our civilization to outpace our culture." For more information about Dr. King's Ames visit, see chapter 28 of "Ames in Word And Picture, Book Two: Further Tales and Personal Memories," 1999, by Farwell T. Brown. (Photo courtesy of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Center, Atlanta, Georgia.) (See also: 217.1238.1)