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9. List at least three injustices that keep the devotees of civil rights from ever being satisfied.
as long as our people are the victims of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.
as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.
as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.
as long as the our basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one.
as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: “For Whites Only.”
as long as a black man in Mississippi cannot vote and a black man in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.
until “justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
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