No society in the history of the world has ever developed a mechanism for permitting those outside its structure to change It for their own benefit. Ours was no exception. Waves of immigrants were assimilated into our society in the same hundred years that black Americans. born American generation after generation. were barred from the same routes to assimilation. It was the genius of Martin Luther King that he was able to see to the deepest roots of our systemour moral traditionand to appeal to it. By insisting. as he did. that protest against unjust laws be carried out peacefully. without violence. he ensured that ultimately the moral truth of equality in Gods sight and mans would prevail.
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