All too many white Americans are horrified not with conditions of Negro life but with the product of these conditions-the Negro himself. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

All too many white Americans are horrified not with conditions of Negro life but with the product of these conditions-the Negro himself.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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