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The late Harry Belafonte was a great artist and also a committed revolutionary.
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King said the best anti-poverty program is a union, where you can fight for your own agenda — somebody doesn’t have to hand it to you.
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King explicitly linked the value of human dignity to the material conditions necessary to enable people to live a decent life.
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Each year in January as King is honored in the eyes of the public, there is little mention of the demands of the man and his mission: his fight for
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