You know my friends, there comes a time
when people get tired of being trampled
by the iron feet of oppression.
There comes a time my friends,
when people get tired of being plunged
across the abyss of humiliation,
where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair.
There comes a time when people get tired
of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July
and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.
There comes a time.
Martin Luther, King Jr., Montgomery Bus Boycott speech, December 1955
