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Martin Luther King: WHEN YOU SIT DOWN ON THE BUS AND YOU SIT DOWN IN THE FRONT,

OR SIT
DOWN BY A WHITE PERSON, YOU ARE SITTING THERE BECAUSE YOU HAVE A DUTY TO SIT DOWN,
NOT MERELY BECAUSE YOU HAVE A RIGHT. 4:10

6:27 (imagen)

6: 44 A white woman says GOD FORGIVES MURDER AND HE FORGIVES ADULTERY. BUT HE IS VERY
ANGRY AND HE ACTUALLY CURSES ALL WHO DO INTEGRATE.

7: 29 (imagen)

7:50 BUT IT WAS ON THAT BRIGHT AFTERNOON THAT I KNEW I WAS LEAVING FRANCE. I COULD
SIMPLY NO LONGER SIT AROUND PARIS, DISCUSSING THE ALGERIAN AND THE BLACK AMERICAN
PROBLEM. EVERYBODY ELSE WAS PAYING THEIR DUES, AND IT WAS TIME I WENT HOME AND PAID
MINE.

13:00 THEREFORE, I BEGIN TO SUSPECT THAT WHITE PEOPLE DID NOT ACT AS THEY DID BECAUSE
THEY WERE WHITE, BUT FOR SOME OTHER REASON.

17:08 IN THE CASE OF AN AMERICAN NEGRO, BORN IN THAT GLITTERING REPUBLIC, AND IN THE
MOMENT YOU ARE BORN, SINCE YOU DON'T KNOW ANY BETTER, EVERY STICK AND STONE AND
EVERY FACE IS WHITE, AND SINCE YOU HAVE NOT YET SEEN A MIRROR, YOU SUPPOSE THAT YOU
ARE TOO.

22:10 I WAS NOT A MEMBER OF THE NAACP BECAUSE IN THE NORTH, WHERE I GREW UP, THE
NAACP WAS FATALLY ENTANGLED WITH BLACK CLASS DISTINCTIONS, OR ILLUSIONS OF THE SAME,
WHICH REPELLED A SHOE-SHINE BOY LIKE ME.

28:40 King says I THINK, THOUGH, THAT WE CAN BE SURE THAT THE VAST
MAJORITY OF NEGROES WHO ENGAGE IN THE DEMONSTRATIONS, AND
WHO UNDERSTAND THE NON-VIOLENT PHILOSOPHY, WILL BE ABLE TO
FACE DOGS AND ALL OF THE OTHER BRUTAL METHODS THAT THEY USE,
WITHOUT RETALIATING WITH VIOLENCE, BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTAND
THAT ONE OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF NON-VIOLENCE IS A
WILLINGNESS TO BE THE RECIPIENT OF VIOLENCE, WHILE NEVER
INFLICTING VIOLENCE UPON ANOTHER.

32: 50 THESE PEOPLE HAVE DELUDED THEMSELVES FOR SO LONG THAT


THEY REALLY DON'T THINK I'M HUMAN. I BASE THIS ON THEIR CONDUCT,
NOT ON WHAT THEY SAY. AND THIS MEANS THAT THEY HAVE BECOME, IN
THEMSELVES... ..MORAL MONSTERS.

34:20 I'M CERTAIN, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, THAT AGAIN LIKE MOST WHITE
AMERICANS I HAVE ENCOUNTERED, THEY HAVE NO... I'M SURE THEY
HAVE NOTHING WHATEVER AGAINST NEGROES... THAT'S REALLY NOT
THE QUESTION. THE QUESTION IS REALLY A KIND OF APATHY AND
IGNORANCE, WHICH IS THE PRICE WE PAY FOR SEGREGATION.

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