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Remarks at a White House Briefing for Supporters and Presidents of Historically Black Colleges

… for black Americans. That's why men like Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., understood and stressed the importance of education. As Frederick Douglass once said, …

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Remarks Upon Returning From the Trip to Indonesia and Japan

… good will. Mrs. Reagan . Thank you. All the young people that you see over there are from the Martin Luther King School. And before we left for Tokyo, they gave to me some letters to be delivered to their …

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Proclamations, February 24, 1986 (02/24/1986)

… was brilliantly illuminated this very year with the first celebration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as a national holiday. This new holiday symbolizes the trail he blazed for others and …

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Remarks at the 40th Anniversary Dinner of the United Negro College Fund

… the greatest educators our nation has ever seen. In our own time, no less a figure than Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stressed the importance to black Americans of good education. Dr. King said, ``We must …

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Remarks in New York City on Receiving the Charles Evans Hughes Gold Medal of the National Conference of Christians and Jews

… Legislature in Montgomery. Only two blocks from where I spoke, a courageous American named Martin Luther King organized a struggle for racial equality that led to historic changes in our society. He …

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Public Papers of Ronald Reagan January 1985

… Portrait Exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery of Art January 15, 1985 Statement on the Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. Message to the Congress Transmitting the Annual Reports on Highway, Traffic, and Motor …

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Public Papers of Ronald Reagan December 1988

… Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service Centennial Day, 1989 Proclamation 5927 -- Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, 1989 December 24, 1988 Radio Address to the Nation on the Holiday Season and the …

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Remarks at a White House Briefing for Black Administration Appointees

… Last November when I signed into law the national holiday commemorating the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I quoted his stirring words about the fate of black and white Americans: ``Their …

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The President's News Conference

… opposed all civil rights legislation, but more recently you said that you were a part of the Martin Luther King revolution. If that is the case, why is your administration so bent on wiping out the …

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Remarks in an Interview Together With Written Responses to Questions Submitted by Le Point of France, June 23, 1986 (06/23/1986)

… liberty, on social and economic justice, and on basic human rights. Apartheid is repugnant. As Martin Luther King said: ``So long as there is injustice anywhere in the world, it threatens justice …

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