"Being a Negro in America means trying to……" — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want… - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having their legs off, and then being condemned for being a cripple."

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