“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”

—  Malcolm X

Quoted by William B. Whitman, The Quotable Politician p. 197.
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“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”

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Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

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