Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
— Martin Luther King Jr. Modern

Civil rights leader

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Strength to Love

Date / Period

1963

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1269-i-learned-that-courage-was-not-the-absence…

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