“One day the sons of the former slaves and the sons of the former slaveholders will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.”
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About this quote
King wrote the letter from jail after being arrested during a campaign against segregation in Birmingham. The image of a shared table is deliberately domestic rather than political, and it is the clearest thing in the letter about what the whole campaign was for.
Source: Letter from Birmingham Jail