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“Invariably, we hear [King quoted] in stirring words about his dream of a society in which people are judged by the ‘content of their character’, not the color of their skin. Until I sat down to think carefully about writing this section, I hadn’t realized that I had always taken that to be an aspiration for the treatment of Black people.”

“As the French writer Anatole France sarcastically observed: ‘in its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread’.”