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[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one
[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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