“The very people King fought for have...
“The very people King fought for have imprisoned us. You can’t go out of your room, the one with the five or six locks.”
--Bishop E. Lynn Brown of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, referring to street gangs as he spoke during a 20th anniversary memorial service for slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
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