Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes:
Ocupation: Civil rights activist
Life: January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968
Birthday: January 15
Death: April 4
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men - yes, black men as well as white men - would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness... America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'
source: I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
topic: Fall, Men, Pursuit Of Happiness, Life Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness, Unalienable Rights, I Have A Dream Speech
