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Pitts: Tired of marching for what should already be ours

AP Photo / Patrick Semansky / The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial stands behind blooming Yoshino cherry trees on the edge of the Tidal Basin, on March 30, 2021, in Washington.
AP Photo / Patrick Semansky / The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial stands behind blooming Yoshino cherry trees on the edge of the Tidal Basin, on March 30, 2021, in Washington. AP Photo / Patrick Semansky / The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial stands behind blooming Yoshino cherry trees on the edge of the Tidal Basin, on March 30, 2021, in Washington.

He said many profound things that day.

He said America had given African Americans “a bad check.”

He said he had come to remind the nation of “the fierce urgency of now.”

He said we might hew “out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.”

He said, “I have a dream.”