Martin Luther King Jr.

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Our skin is not as white as snow Does this make us worthless? A lot of us grew up in single parent homes Does this make us inadequate? We commit the same crimes But why do we only get the life sentences?
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In China, hospitals skip the fourth and the fourteenth floor because four in Mandarin Chinese iss hi, the same pronunciation as the word for death.  
I am an African, an African taken from my homeland and  brought into a place where I am known as being "inferior" Why was this happening? Do I not shed blood and cry as any other
BOOM! Goes the sound of a bus backfiring As it leaves a stop with no passengers Once again The bus driver silently laments to himself And hopes the boycott will be over.
They shuffle up the stairs In a line like prisoners Their heads hung low As they walk in a single row. “To the back of the bus,” he says. But they already know,
Bloodshed, yelling and screaming in a world in which I took my stance All I got was an undesirable glance I didn't apologize for the need for equality So I proceeded in my seat in a world shaken without harmony
Abraham Lincoln was the author of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 16th president of the United States Martin Luther King Jr was an inspiration and the leader of the civil rights movement
Martin Luther King Junior had a dream For all people to be treated fair In order to rid the world of despair It was a part of the grander scheme To fill the world with utter esteem
Roses are Red Violets are blue Martain Luther King lead a march on Washington and changed civil rights forever and so can you.
Behold an August day a flock of black ravens flew their way to freedom. What else is in the air? A flock of white falcons flying in pairs with the ravens.
Words, just words a man speaks, but they cradle me in wonder. Maybe if I wait a little longer and I march a little stronger
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