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I chose to dream and act on my dreams, following the example that my father taught. To live with this dream may be crazy, it may be foolish, but to live without it would be a nightmare.

— Yolanda King A Dream Deferred (1989)

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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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