America has not yet changed because so many think it need not change, but this is the illusion of the damned.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, civil rights leader, social activist, preacher

Essay (1968), “A Testament of Hope,” Playboy magazine (1969-01)
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Collected in James Melvin Washington (ed.), A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr., Part 3, ch. 48 (1986).