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359: Martin Luther King's Dream

The Rest Is History

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The Importance of Cashing a Check

King says America has defaulted on its promise to guarantee all men the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This is an argument that reverberates to this day among campaigners for black rights. Some will say we're just asking that America live up to its own professed ideals; others will say America is poisoned from the start by the original sin of slavery. And King doesn't say the latter. He explicitly says: "Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy"

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