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Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15)
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"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal'."
   - Martin Luther King, Jr. Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963.