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  • So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others.

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    Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, National Education Association of the United States (1979*). “Building networks for nonviolent social change: report of the Fourth Annual Summer Institute on Nonviolence, Atlanta, Georgia, July 31-August 2, 1980 [i.e. 1979]”
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So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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