"The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.“


-Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

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