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“The time is always right to do what's right.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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Wikiquote: Martin Luther King Jr.
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Context

"The Future of Integration", address in Finney Chapel at Oberlin College (22 October 1964), as quoted in "When MLK came to Oberlin" by Cindy Leise, The Chronicle-Telegram (21 January 2008); he also used a slight variant of this "the time is always right to do right" in a later speech "Remaining Awak

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Jr., Martin Luther King. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Martin Luther King Jr.. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.

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