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Speech honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., January 17, 2005, Clemson University

“I'd like a hamburger and a coke, please. / Sir, we don't serve negroes here. / Ma'am, I don't eat negroes. I'd like a hamburger and a coke.”

Joseph Lowery

Conversation was originally at a burger joint in Nashville, TN, but the story was recounted at a Speech honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., January 17, 2005, Clemson University.

“We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right.”

Joseph Lowery

Benediction at inauguration of US president Barack Obama, January 20, 2009, Washington DC.

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