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One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judaeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. -Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” p. 900 Throughout Martin Luther King Junior’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, it is made evident that time is a constant theme necessary to reference. In fact