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“We must all learn to live together as brothers — or we will all perish together as fools. This is the great issue facing us today. No individual can live alone; no nation can live alone. We are tied together.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil rights leader and Nobel Peace laureate
1960s / Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965)
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