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“There is another side called justice. And justice is really love in calculation. Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil rights leader and Nobel Peace laureate
Martin Luther King, Jr., Montgomery Bus Boycott speech, at Holt Street Baptist Church (5 December 1955).
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