The time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us today...

... some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

The time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us today... ... some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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