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“Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation. That is what we have not taught young people, or older ones for that matter. You do not finally win a state of freedom that is protected forever. It doesn't work that way.
— Coretta Scott King
Civil rights leader
My Life with Martin Luther King Jr., Revised Edition (1969/1993), p. xiii
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