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Selma (Martin Luther King Jr.)

One man

can really change the world,

even if it's just by dying.

One man

can really lead thousands

if he kneels down and prays hard enough.

One man

can influence his pale demons

to lay down their pitch forks,

and also to pick them up.

One man

is just a man

is just a father

just a husband

just a preacher

just a speaker

just a man.

And does he truly want to be that

one man

that can really change the world,

even if it's just by dying?

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