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" To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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" 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. "

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" The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. "

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