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“There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
— Coretta Scott King
Civil rights leader
My Life with Martin Luther King Jr., Revised Edition (1969/1993), Ch. 6
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