We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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