Why we can't wait - By Martin Luther King Jr.

Crispus Attucks (first solider to die for the independence of America)
Benjamin Bennaker (designer)

- The boy in Harlem stood up. the girl in Bermingham arose. Separated by stretching miles, both of them square their shoulders and lifted their eyes towards their heaven. Across the miles , they joined hands and took a firm , forward step. it was a step that rocked the most powerful nation to its foundation.

- softening old attitudes and outdated customs, democracy must press ahead out of the past ignorance and intolerance and into the present educational and moral freedom.

-the Negro felt that he recognized the same old bone that was handed to him in the past - only now it was being handed to him in a platter, with courtesy.

- There is a sense of bitter irony in the picture of this country championing freedom in foreign lands yet failing to ensure that freedom to twenty million of its own.

The pen of the Great Emancipator (Lincoln) had move the Negro into the sun light of of physical freedom but actual condition had left him behind in the shadow of political, physiological, social, economical and intellectual bondage.

- One hundred years after emancipation, the Negro lived on a lonely island of economical insecurity in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.

- non violence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a sword that cuts without wounding and ennobles the man that wields it. It could win victories without losing wars.