"We come humbly to say to the men……" — Martin Luther King, Jr.

We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of… - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo; it is rather an eternal moral issue which may well determine the destiny of our nation in the ideological struggle with communism. The hour is late. The clock of destiny is ticking out. We must act now, before it is too late."

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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