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Case Study: But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the worn threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaming our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protests to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous neto militancy, which has engulfed the Negro community, must not lead us to a distrust of all white people. For many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, lurve come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march alread. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of Civil Rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We cam never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality, we can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities; we cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one; we can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating For Whites Only, we cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro in Mississippi cannot vote, and the Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No! No, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Question 1. How is physical violence a good example of how protests might degenerate? How does this reflect King's views?

Question 2. How is the freedom of white people inextricably bound to that of black people? T. An example of repetition can be found in the last paragraph above. What phrase does King repeat? What effect does this repetition have an the reader?