Sunday, January 16, 2005

MLK

from MLK's famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
When you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she cannot go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she’s told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people..." Here's the whole letter:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/popular_requests/frequentdocs/birmingham.pdf
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/popular_requests/frequentdocs/birmingham.pdf

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