A main point that was originally missed was that the blacks had a clear right to protest, according to the first amendment of the American Bill of Rights. “And certainly, certainly, this is the glory of America, with all of its faults. (Yeah) This is the glory of our democracy. If we were incarcerated behind the iron curtains of a Communistic nation, we couldn’t do this. (Well. All right) If we were dropped in the dungeon of a totalitarian regime, we couldn’t do this. (All right) But the great glory of American democracy is the right to protest for right. (That’s right) [Applause]” All the blacks wanted was the equality promised them by our own Constitution; nothing more, nor less. And how were they going about it? Peacefully. Unlike the Ku Klux Klan, which would drags blacks out of their houses and lynch them. Unlike the White Citizens' Council, who would make those seeking black civil liberties meet economic reprisal. The blacks merely wanted to exercise their right of peaceful protest. “My friends, don’t let anybody make us feel that we are to be compared in our actions with the Ku Klux Klan or with the White Citizens Council. [Applause] There will be no crosses burned at any bus stops in Montgomery. (Well. That’s right) There will be no white persons pulled out of their homes and taken out on some distant road and lynched for not cooperating. [Applause] There will be nobody among us who will stand up and defy the Constitution of this nation. [Applause] We only assemble here because of our desire to see right exist. [Applause]” Unlike a fascist or communist country, the United States of America was supposed to be land for all to be free and equal, and that was the dream of Martin Luther King.
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