Question

Read this passage from a speech given by Martin Luther King about the bus boycott, and then answer the question.
According to Dr. King, what is the “glory of America”?

The right to be free

The right to a democracy

The right to protest
The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest.

And certainly, certainly, this is the glory of America, with all of its faults. This is the glory of our democracy. If we were incarcerated behind the iron curtains of a Communistic nation, we couldn't do this. If we were dropped in the dungeon of a totalitarian regime, we couldn't do this. But the great glory of American democracy is the right to protest for right.

–Martin Luther King,
1955

Answer 1

The right to protest.

King calls “the great glory of American democracy” the ability to protest for what is right, something not possible under totalitarian regimes.