Excerpts from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s The Drum Major Instinct speech, delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, on 4 February 1968.
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The other day I was saying, I always try to do a little converting when I’m in jail. And when we were in jail in Birmingham the other day, the white wardens and all enjoyed coming around the cell to talk about the race problem. And they were showing us where we were so wrong …