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DFW

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7. Fifty years ago

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Thu Jun 18, 2020, 11:09 PM

Jun 2020

Dick Gregory came to my college in my freshman year and read out this passage in a speech with such fire and intensity, none present ever forgot it. He was loud, slow and deliberate with that exact phrase you put in bold letters.

Dick Gregory and William Barber came from different professions, but their orating styles were not so different. I consider myself lucky to have met both of them.

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