“We will go there, we will demand to be heard, and we will stay until America responds.
If this means forcible repression of our movement, we will confront it, for we have done this before. If this means scorn or ridicule, we embrace it, for that is what America’s poor now receive. If it means jail, we accept it willingly, for the millions of poor already are imprisoned by exploitation and discrimination.”
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
December 4, 1967
