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25-01-05, 05:19 PM
# 26 DR. KING A WORD OR TWO
AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER IT WAS INFERIOR TO MOTIVATE A BLACK OR HISPANIC CHILD TO LEARN?
SEGREGATION WAS AN INSTRUMENT TO DEPRIVE THIS YOUTH FOR EQUAL EDUCATION AND MENTAL
DEVELOPMENT. IT WAS PROVEN LONG TIME AGO THAT IN THE FIELD OF PUBLIC EDUCATION THE DOCTRINE “SEPARATE BUT NOT EQUAL�
HAS NO PLACE IN OUR CASE.
NOW A DAY IT IS UNCONTESTABLE TO DENY ANYONE AN EDUCATION, LET ALONE NOT FORGET THE PEOPLE THAT PUT THEIR LIVES AND THEIR TIME IN EFFORTS TO KEEP OUR CONSTITUTION AND TO TEST THAT CONSTITUTION AND ITS CIVIL RIGHTS.
EVEN TODAY, RIGHT NOW SOMEWHERE IN THIS COUNTRY OF OURS, PEOPLE STILL CRITICIZES THIS VERY DAY. A DAY THAT MAKES A DAY TO EVERY RACE OF PEOPLE THAT A GREAT SHEPHERD SPOKE AND HE SAID,� TO STAND TALL AND THERE IS NO TURNING BACK, CAUSE HE HAS BEEN TO THE MOUNTAINTOP�.
SO LET US NOT FORGET THOSE WHO HAVE PAVED THE ROAD FOR OUR FREEDOM AND PRIDE FOR THIS GREAT COUNTRY OF OURS.
AND LET US NOT FORGET THAT THIS DAY MARKS THAT FREEDOM WE POSSESS, AT THE COST OF ONES’S LIFE MANY LIFES.
your business is our business and my business is none of your business
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