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“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”
― Michel Foucault

“In late March, King joined with a broad spectrum of Black leaders condemning the charges against SNCC leader H. Rap Brown for allegedly inciting a riot in Cambridge, MD. The fiery Brown had been shot by police after he’d spoken at a rally in Cambridge but now faced charges of incitement. Brown’s arrest was a threat to everyone’s liberty, King underscored: ‘[T]hose who sit silent while another’s rights are violated inevitably come to one of two ends…Either they ultimately compromise their principles to survive in a police state, or they are eventually crushed themselves when it is too late to resist.”
― Jeanne Theoharis, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South

“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
― André Gide