Quote #29

As long as men are hungry, and their children uneducated, and their crops destroyed by pestilence, the American Revolution will have a part to play. As long as men are not free - in their lives and in their opinions, their speech and their knowledge - that long will the American Revolution not be finished. (NYC, 6-15-65)

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  2. But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we lo…
  3. Another great task is to confront the poverty of satisfaction--a lack of purpose and dignity--that afflicts us all. Too much and too long, …
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  6. Each generation makes its own accounting to its children.
  7. All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out - in prose, or paintin…
  8. Fear not the path of truth, for the lack of people walking on it.

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