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There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the ...
If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in that bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.
... two great areas of deafness existed in the South: White Southerners had no ears to hear that which threatened their Dream. And ...
... there is a dangerous trend observable in some quarters of the Movement to program Sapphire out of her "evil" ways into a cover ...
I cannot say to a person who suffers injustice, "Wait." Perhaps you can. I can't. And having decided that I cannot urge caution I ...
I was reborn when that jury said, "Guilty!"
I've never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen.
...I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was going to do ...
We have got to stop the nervous Nellies and the Toms from going to the Man's place. I don't believe in killing, but a good whippin ...
It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in our homes. Can we call this a fre ...
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