To What Extent Can Freedom To Be Rewon?

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“Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation,” by Coretta Scott King. I believe that freedom has to be rewon. In every generation freedom has to be rewon because people that make a difference only make a difference in that time of age. People like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. He led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s. In the spring of 1963, he gave a speech “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character," by Martin Luther King, Jr. August 28, 1963, the historic March on Washington drew more than 200,000 people in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial. He led

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