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The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driv

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Nobel Prize lecture, 11 December 1968

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If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. – Norman B. Rice

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In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967

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I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. – Barry Goldwater

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