“We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world.”
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My Life with Martin Luther King Jr., 1969
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Civil rights leader and author who carried forward her husband's legacy while building her own powerful movement for peace and justice.
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This quote speaks to the pillar of Legacy — the understanding that what you build outlasts you. Every generation of Black leaders has planted trees whose shade they would never sit in.
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