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On the recordJanuary 15, 1995
His life should have special impact for every American, for he freed the rest of us, too, of our hatred, our bigotry, of the illusion which still crops up from time to time that we can somehow lift ourselves up by putting others down.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks Honoring Martin Luther King

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