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Martin Luther King, Jr.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. is saying that the intense and painful period of frustration and anger felt by Black people will continue until real progress is made toward freedom and equal rights.

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