Martin Luther King Jr.
August 28, 1963 —50 years ago today he
stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and he spoke to America and the
world — “I Have A Dream”
This sweltering summer of the colored people's
legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of
freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end but a beginning. Those
who hope that the colored Americans needed to blow off steam and will now be
content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual.There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the colored citizen is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.
We cannot be satisfied as long as the colored person's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one.
We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "for white only."…
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