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" I don't want to tell people how to remember me. I want people to remember me as they remember me. "

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" We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system, until the people control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and the intention of humanity. "

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