For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages…

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of brutal injustice and shameful humiliation - and yet out of a bottomless vitality our people continue to thrive and develop. ✨ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream and Other Great Writings, p.104, Beacon Press
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