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[W]e need emulate neither the “do-nothingism” of the complacent nor the
hatred and despair of the Black nationalist. For there is the more excellent
way of love and nonviolent protest. I am grateful to God that, through the
influence of the Negro church, the way of nonviolence became an integral
part of our struggle. . . .
One day the South will know that when these disinherited children
of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for
what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our
Judeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great
wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their
formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. . . .
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