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[W]hen you realize that people have that sort of feeling about you, that you're going to be some sort of savior from their dilemma, it's very sobering, because it imposes a great responsibility upon you.

Source: On his 1965 campaign; in Voices of Freedom, by Henry Hampton, 1990.
-- Carl Stokes, (Jun 21 1927-1996), US mayor, lawyer; He was the first black mayor of a major U.S. city, Cleveland, 1967.

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