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If You Give Your Life To A Cause In Which You Believe, And If It Is Right And Just, And If Your Life Comes To An End As A Result Of This, Then Your Life Could Not Have Been Spent In A More Redemptive Way. I Think That Is What My Husband Has Done.

-Coretta Scott King

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If You Give Your Life To A Cause In Which You Believe, And If It Is Right And Just, And If Your Life Comes To An End As A Result Of This, Then Your Life Could Not Have Been Spent In A More Redemptive Way. I Think That Is What My Husband Has Done.

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