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Moks legacy inspires me to engage in

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activism . Make sure that I'm out

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involved in the community and

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advocating for social justice . I think

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anytime we're taking a day to think

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about others , how they're treated what

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we're doing , I think that's gonna just

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encourage more and more of that

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behavior because what we are practicing ,

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we , you know what we , what we

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practice becomes what we are . My

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personal commitment to advance mlks

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ideas are to provide service to all

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those that are in need . It doesn't

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matter what they have or what they

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don't have , but they are in need .

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Service is what we do . Service is who

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we should be and what we should strive

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to live for . So I think observance

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of uh Martin Luther King Junior Day uh

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is an opportunity to kind of look at

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his life and what he believed in . I

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don't think we have a better example in

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modern US history as somebody who lived

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his ideals . Um he knew right from

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wrong and there was no one that he was

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gonna sway him from living that uh on a

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day to day basis and he put himself at

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incredible risk put his family at risk ,

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um , he went to prison and eventually

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gave the ultimate sacrifice to live up

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to his ideals . And I think that's what

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we all can aspire to . I think we often

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fall short . But I think as long as you

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always have that as a goal to try to

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achieve , uh you know , that you're ,

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you're living and working in the right

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direction .