I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunli…

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity ✨ Thomas F. Jackson, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2007). From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice, p.298, University of Pennsylvania Press
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I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity ✨ Thomas F. Jackson, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2007). From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice, p.298, University of Pennsylvania Press

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