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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session During an Administration Briefing in Chicago, Illinois, for Editors From the Midwestern Region

… suit internationally and prevent it that way. Well, we're trying to do it in a friendlier way. Martin Luther King, Jr. Q. Mr. President, there's a thrust on the part of many in this country to have the …

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Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Columbus, Ohio

… millions worked for equality in the name of their Creator. Civil rights leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King based all their efforts on the claim that black or white, each of us is a child of God. And …

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Remarks Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas

… Bless America'' as the torch went by. That torch went through the Cumberland Gap, past the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial, down the Santa Fe Trail, and alongside Billy the Kid's grave. In Richardson, …

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​​​​​​​ Address Before a Joint Session of the Alabama State Legislature in Montgomery

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

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Question-and-Answer Session With High School Students on Domestic and Foreign Policy Issues

… lady right -- you with your hand up. No, you're pointing to yourself, yes. Yes. [Laughter] Martin Luther King, Jr. Q. Mr. President, my name is Donna Frazier. I'm from Atlanta, Georgia. I go to Job …

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Participants in the National Conference of the National Association of Student Councils in Shawnee Mission, Kansas

… that you are willing to send us back to the times before the Montgomery bus boycott and Dr. King's march on Washington. How would you respond to these critics who say that you're spending … to the Civil Rights Commission. Well, one of them, a Dr. Abram, was the lawyer who defended Martin Luther King when he was arrested for the sit-in in a lunch counter in Atlanta, Georgia. And …

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The President's News Conference

… for example, on my appointees to the Civil Rights Commission. Well, Dr. Abram represented Martin Luther King when he was arrested in Atlanta in the restaurant sit-in there. Bunzel, who was 8 years the …

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