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Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes: The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.
         

The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.


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