Verified Source: Martin Luther King Jr. — "The quality, not the…"

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La calidad, no la longevidad, de la vida de uno es lo que importa.

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TIME, “Martin Luther King Jr.: 1964 TIME Person of the Year,” January 1964

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“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.”

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