Martin Luther King made a living plagiarizing.

The King is one of the most inspirational figures in the civil rights movement era. His biggest weapon was his inspiring speeches about racial equality. But they weren’t his own work. The King plagiarized the infamous “I Have A Dream” speech from one given at the Republican Convention in 1952 given by Archibald J. Carey, Jr., an an African-American lawyer in Chicago. The speech given by Carey goes ”We, Negro Americans, sing with all loyal Americans: My country ’tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, Land of the Pilgrims’ pride From every mountainside Let freedom ring!”

Martin Luther said almost the exact same thing in his speech in Washington on 1963. He said “My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.” But it doesn’t end there. Years after his death, the University of Stanford found out that MLK also plagiarized a doctoral about the conception of god. It included large chunks of the lines that were used in Jack Boozer’s doctoral, who wrote his three years ago. The Journal Of American History, the staff at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project said that Luther plagiarizing his speeches started to became a pattern.