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"When I was a young reporter for the Washington Post, I asked a friend, a consultant on education to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, whether the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., had strong views on the school prayer and Bible reading decisions. My friend laughed and said King had once remarked that it would be very nice if the school day across America could begin with a reading of the Bill of Rights. "After all," King told my friend, "we Negroes know our Bible. We don't need to have it read to us ..."

-- Susan Jacoby, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism