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On a sunny day in June 1961, Martin Luther King Jr. made one of his least famous but most interesting speeches. The occasion was the commencement exercise at Lincoln University, a tiny historically Black college in southern Pennsylvania. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech was two years away. Now, he gave a less polished oration. He told the college graduates that they would only become worthy American adults if they rejected what their superiors and peers thought they should do. They needed to embrace a willingness to be an outsider, the other, different—in short, “maladjusted.” This would help them realize the American dream. “For in a real sense,” King said, “America is essentially a dream, a dream as yet unfulfilled.” It would only become real if Blacks were treated as equally as Whites, the poor as well as the rich, and if other nations were treated by America as justly as we wished to treat our own citizens. The first problem—racism—had been the focus of King’s struggle until then; the second and third problems—poverty and militarism— would represent King’s final battles in the last years of his life. King called for empathy: We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality; tied in a single garment of destiny. . . . Strangely enough, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way the world is made.