The Horse And Buggy Analysis

The horse and buggy pace piece of this sentence means it's another way to talk about your younger years as an adult.
I think he's referring that his activism and his people of activist are not going to give up their cause for equality and by saying that they would put forth effort into gaining something as valuable as a cup of coffee so to speak. By using the coffee as an object with prize value, he put an image into my mind that it was this huge award with the same value as racial equality, and so that's what he striving for but he would rather not say it openly. Martin is showing his readers the passion in his mission for equal rights for everyone. He believed with all heart that someday his descendants would live in an era where race doesn't