Painterly iron gate between autumn leaves and flowering greenery in a misty sunset landscape.

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Dr. 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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Here the seasons carry the argument. Summer is the stifling heat of a wrong that has gone on too long, and it won't break until autumn arrives with real freedom and equality. King frames relief as something that must actually be won, not just waited for.

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