"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.“

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that."

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"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

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