How Long, Not Long's Speech

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community, especially the younger one, is to hold and be patient. That was the message he was spreading during his “How long, Not Long” speech. During that speech he emphasizes that nothing last forever that sooner or later justice and equality would prevail: “I come to say to you this afternoon, however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because "truth crushed to earth will rise again." How long? Not long, because "no lie can live forever." How long? Not long, because "you shall reap what you sow." How long? Not long:” But how long is too long? Its seem that the black community has always been told to be patient, members of white America always tell us to look on how far we came, and think about how

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