Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks before a crowd of 25,000 civil rights marchers outside the state capitol building on March 25, 1965, in Montgomery, Alabama. Stephen F. Somerstein/Getty Images

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks before a crowd of 25,000 civil rights marchers outside the state capitol building on March 25, 1965, in Montgomery, Alabama. Stephen F. Somerstein/Getty Images

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What MLK knew that today’s progressives keep forgetting

Late one Friday night, a young man trudged into his kitchen while his wife and infant daughter slept. He heated a cup of coffee and paced the floor. When he placed the cup on his table, his hands trembled