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By : Tyrell Bell and Michael Poole |
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Martin
Luther King Jr. Was born on January
15 1929 and died April 4 1968 he
was awarded B.D. in 1951 |
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Five score years ago a great American, in whose
symbolic shadow we stand signed the
emancipation proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon
light of hope to millions of negro
slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It
came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. But one
hundred years later we must face the tragic fact that the negro still free |
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One hundred years later, the life of the negro
is till sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of
discrimination.One hundred year later,the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst
of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later the negro
is still languishing in the corner of
American society and finds
himself an exile in his own land |
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So we
have come here today to
dramatize appalling condition in a
sense we have come to our
nations capital to cash a
check.When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of
the constitution and the
declaration of independence , they
were signing a promissory note to
which every American was to fall
heir |
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This note was a promise that all men would be
guaranteed the Inalienable rights
of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness it is obvious today that America has defaulted on this
promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.
Instead of honoring this sacred obligation,America has
giving the negro people a bad check
which has come back marked “ insufficient funds” but we
refuse to believe that that the bank of justice is bankrupt we refuse to
believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of
opportunity of this nation |
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