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As i like to say to the people in montgomery: "the tension in this city is not between white people and negro people. the tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
As i like to say to the people in montgomery: "the tension in this city is not between white people and negro people. the tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.
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