We will soon wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and in winning our freedom we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process. Martin Luther King, Jr. While there have been many persons of importance in the struggle for Civil Rights for black Americans, it would be hard to argue that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had the greatest impact in both the white and …
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…good job. I had a son. When something happens to Negroes in the South I said 'That's there business, not mine.' Now I know how wrong I was. The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of us all." Blacks in the North as well as in the south would not easily forget the murder of Emmett Till.