Civil rights · Skopia

Quotes

22

Speech · Political speech

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Have a Dream · 1963

★ 9.9

Speech · Political speech

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir... America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Have a Dream · 1963

★ 7.3

We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

1968

★ 7.1

I was born by the river In a little tent And just like the river I've been runnin' ever since It's been a long, a long time comin' But I know a change gon' come.

A Change Is Gonna Come · 1964

★ 7.0

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Songs

7

A Change is Gonna ComeSam Cooke

A Change is Gonna Come

1964★ 9.7

Blowin' in the Wind

1963★ 9.2

People Get ReadyThe Impressions

People Get Ready

The Impressions

1965★ 8.0

Everyday People

Sly and the Family Stone

1968★ 7.7

Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud

1968★ 7.7

Pride (In the Name of Love)

1984★ 7.3

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Books

3

The Souls of Black Folk

1903★ 8.2

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Frederick Douglass

1845★ 7.4

Parting the Waters

1988★ 6.9