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“Truth crushed to earth will rise again.”

Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist known for his nonviolent protest and advocacy for equal rights. His 'I Have a Dream' speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 became a significant milestone in the American civil rights movement. more

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“My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”

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“Be true to what you said on paper.”

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“Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.”

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“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”

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“We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.”

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“Segregation...not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually...It scars the soul...It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying 'You are less than...''You are not equal to...'”

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“I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.”

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