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"My father had a magnificent dream, but it still is only a dream. It is easier to build monuments than make a better world. If we choose to honor him in words alone, it will be a grotesque farce."

— Yolanda King

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"To this day, my heart skips a beat every time I hear one of those special bulletins."

After recollecting her father's death to People magazine (1999)

"I am a 100 percent, dyed-in-the-wool, card-carrying believer in the dream."

"Our mother is coming home and we are so grateful and so thankful that this is happening."

This accomplishment is a moment of triumph—but not for Martin Luther King Jr., he wouldn’t have cared one way or other, his was a very self-effacing spirit.

A Dream Deferred (1989)

"Jim Crow is dead. But his sophisticated, college-educated, urbane first cousin J. Crow, Esquire, is alive and kicking."

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