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Nonviolent army was unlimited. >> during the weeks' long birmingham campaign, king himself was arrested. from his cell he composed one of the movement's seminal documents, his "letter from a birmingham jail." he wrote, "we know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. it must be demanded by the oppressed. for years now i have heard the word 'wait.'" it rings in the ear of every negro with a piercing familiarity. we must come to see that justice too long delayed is justice denied. >> more than a thousand schoolchildren, first high school students, the...