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Martin Luther King Jr: Cruel Jest

“It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”

Martin Luther King, Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968).


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