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Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, Wait. But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim when you see the vast majority of twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can t go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky when you take a cross-country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you when your wife and mother are never given the respected title Mrs. when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of nobodiness then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.Product Videos
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Author Martin Luther King
Binding Paperback
Series Signet Classics
Language English
Book Type Nonfiction
Grade Content 9-12
Lexile 1200
Accelerated Reading Level 10.4
Subject United States History
Standard SSUSH21d. Civil rights groups- growth, influence, and tactics. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, I Have a Dream Speech, Cesar Chavez.
Copyright 2012
