It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes;…

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. ✨ Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). The trumpet of conscience, HarperCollins
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It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. ✨ Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). The trumpet of conscience, HarperCollins

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