Charity isn't a good substitute for justice.

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Charity isn't a good substitute for justice.

• -Jonathan Kozol

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Thurgood Marshall Graduate of Howard University
Law
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Earl Warren, at time of Brown, newly
appointed Chief Justice. Sought an unequivocal
9-0 decision
Dr. Kenneth Clark, Psychologist Offered key
evidence from race doll studies
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Ernest Green Graduation Day 1958 Central High
School Little Rock, Arkansas
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One hundred years later, the life of the Negro
is still sadly crippled by the manacles of
segregation and the chains of discrimination.
One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a
lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast
ocean of material prosperity... So we have come
here today to dramatize a shameful condition...
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In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to
cash a check. When the architects of our republic
wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution
and the Declaration of Independence, they were
signing a promissory note to which every American
was to fall heir. This note was a promise that
all men, yes, black men as well as white men,
would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness." It
is obvious today that America has defaulted on
this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of
color are concerned. Instead of honoring this
sacred obligation, America has given the Negro
people a bad check, a check which has come back
marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to
believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We
refuse to believe that there are insufficient
funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this
nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a
check that will give us upon demand the riches of
freedom and the security of justice.
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We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind
America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no
time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or
to take the tranquilizing drug of
gradualism... It would be fatal for the nation
to overlook the urgency of the moment. This
sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate
discontent will not pass until there is an
invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a
beginning. And those who hope that the Negro
needed to blow off steam and will now be content
will have a rude awakening if the nation returns
to business as usual. And there will be neither
rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro
is granted his citizenship rights. The
whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the
foundations of our nation until the bright day
of justice emerges.
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Merlie Evers, For Us the Living See handwritten
note
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Byron de la Beckwith, convicted 1995 for the
assassination of Medgar Evers
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Jimmy Lee Jackson Killed 1965
James Seale Arrested 2007
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Ray Killen Tried 2005
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• "We will have to repent in this generation not
  merely for the hateful words and actions of the
  bad people but for the appalling silence of the
  good people." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The moral arc of the universe is long, but it
bends toward justice
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Stokely Carmichael, SNCC, 1967
John Lewis, SNCC 1963
The Changing Leadership and Philosophy of SNCC
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• Phillip Randolph of the BSCP
• at March on Washington 1963

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Huey Newton, BPP
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Huey Newton
Bobby Seale
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H. Rap Brown
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• "We will have to repent in this generation not
  merely for the hateful words and actions of the
  bad people but for the appalling silence of the
  good people." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.