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“You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.” quote by Malcolm X — Download Open image

“You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.”

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