It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born … - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action. . . that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

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