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Language Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL
- Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries and see the…
- When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice,…
- And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has…
- It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without,…
- A riot is the language of the unheard.
- Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be…
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