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When I saw the funeral scene, I just broke down. I ran out of the cabin into the woods, and for nearly 2-1/2 hours, I just cried: "Why, God, did You take him?"

— Bernice King

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I'll do whatever I can, and leave the rest to God.

It is terribly inhumane to block pathways out of poverty because you didn’t need those pathways.

There is no form of protest against racism that is acceptable to racists.

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