America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come…

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.' ✨ I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
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