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Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. is saying that while Black people have committed crimes, these acts are a result of larger injustices caused by white society.

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