Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and he must release them. It is not a threat but a fact of history that if an oppressed people's pent-up emotions are not nonviolently released, they will be violently released.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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  • Understand
  • Emotions
  • Demonstrations