"If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, 'There lived a great people—a black people—who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.'"
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Martin Luther King Jr., speech to the Montgomery Improvement Association (5 December 1955).
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