It is true that behavior cannot be legislated, and legislation cannot make you love me, but legislation can restrain you from lynching me. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

It is true that behavior cannot be legislated, and legislation cannot make you love me, but legislation can restrain you from lynching me.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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