Dalai Lama Visits Alabama
By Jessica Sheinfeld
The Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibet, visited one of America’s sacred sanctuaries on Saturday,
touring the church where four African-American girls were killed in a 1963 bombing that
galvanized the civil rights movement. As more than 300 protesters and supporters chanted and
beat drums outside, the Dalai Lama held hands with Birmingham Mayor William Bell inside the
16th Street Baptist Church and said he was overjoyed to stand at the site where the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders in the 1960s launched rallies for freedom for African-
Americans. “Human rights starts from within," the Dalai Lama said. "It does not come from skies.
It does grow from earth."
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