King, M. L., Carson, C., Holloran, P., Luker, R., & Russell, P. A. (1992). The papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Berkeley: University of California Press. It has been observed in this book that America has not been able to pay this bill for what it is necessary citizens of color. Rather than pay this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "lack of funds". But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation lacks funds. And we have come to cash this check - a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We arrived here in this sacred place, and to remind America of the urgent requirement today. Now is not the time to be satisfied pacifying measures or taking sedative gradual solutions. It is time to get out of the dark valley of segregation and enter the sunlit path of racial justice. It is time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Fraddy, M. (2002). Martin Luther King, Jr: A life. New York: Penguin Books. …show more content…
The scorching summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not end until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. 1963 - This is not the end but the beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and that he calm down, be a rude awakening if the nation returns to familiar every day. Until the Negro is granted his citizenship will be right, America cannot see nor tranquility nor peace. The revolutionary storm will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until that time, until the bright day of