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" I am scared that if Ronald Reagan gets into office, we are going to see more of the Ku Klux Klan and a resurgence of the Nazi Party. "
Coretta Scott King
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" I always knew that I was called to do something. I didn't know what, but I finally rationalized after I met Martin - and it took a lot of praying to discover this - that this was probably what God had called me to do: to marry him. "
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" People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia. "
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