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“Were it not for that painful national exposure to racist brutality, we wouldn’t have gotten the Civil Rights Act or the Voting Rights Act.” <


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"But sometimes a nation needs a nightmare before it can fully awaken to long-simmering crises. POLL: Do you feel Democrats can regain control of Congress in 2026? Martin Luther King Jr. mobilized the nation against racial injustice by making sure almost everyone in the United States saw its horrors — on the nightly news, watching peaceful Black people getting clubbed and arrested for exercising their rights. Were it not for that painful national exposure to racist brutality, we wouldn't have gotten the Civil Rights Act or the Voting Rights Act."<


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