there was another letter that came from a little girl, a young girl who was a student at the white plains high schoollooked at that letter, and i'll never forget it. it said simply, "dear dr. king, i am a ninth grade student at the white plains high school." and she said, "while it should not matter, i would like to mention that i'm a white girl. i read in the paper of your misfortune and of your suffering. and i read that if you had sneezed, you would have died. and i'm simply writing you to say that i'm so happy that you didn't sneeze." and i want to say tonight -- [applause] i want to say tonight that i too am happy that i didn't sneeze, because if i had sneezed, i wouldn't have been around here in 1960 when students all over the south started sitting in at lunch counters. and i knew that as they were sitting in, they were really standing up for the best in the american dream and taking the whole nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in the declaration of independence and the constitution. if i had sneezed, i wouldn't have been around here in 196