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I think I went to Alabama to worship God! I know that is what I did on U.S. Highway 80, along with 6,000 men and women, boys and girls, each of whom in his own way was doing the same thing.

— Maurice Davis Brotherhood Postponed (1965)

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I keep thinking what happens when the power of love is twisted into the love of power.

I realize that it is a dangerous practice, perhaps even subversive, to talk about brotherhood in March.

Brotherhood Postponed (1965)

Five, the instilling of fear, hatred, and suspicion of everyone outside the camp, of the entire outside world in order to keep the victims in line.

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I am a Jew, and I am a Rabbi, and I cherish — as do my people — the grandeur of the First Amendment.

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I marveled again at the power of the federal government whose presence stood between us and another massacre.

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