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On the recordJanuary 10, 1995
As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars—I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Proclamation 6765—Martin Luther King

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