It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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