A. America is essentially a dream, a dream as yet unfulfilled.
B. It is trite, but urgently true, that if America is to remain a first-class nation she can no longer have second-class citizens.
C. Indeed slavery and segregation have been strange paradoxes in a nation founded on the principle that all men are created equal.
D. One of the first things we notice in this dream is an amazing universalism. It does not say some men, but it says all men.
—"The American Dream," Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Which statement shows specific reasons King believes America does not live up to its promise of equality?