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Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes: We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.
         

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.


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