As the narrator reads excerpts from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail, images depicting the Civil Rights struggle are displayed.

When I hear “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. It must be demanded by the oppressed.” I detect echoes of Frederick Douglass’ “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

 

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