Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern wor…

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority. ✨ Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings, p.11, Beacon Press
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Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority. ✨ Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings, p.11, Beacon Press

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