I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating pl…

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect. ✨ Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr
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