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It was only four decades ago that we found ourselves in a similar place to today. We were embroiled in an unpopular war, plagued by disparities and inequalities here at home, and looking for leadership in Washington, D.C. [ ? ]Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called us to action with three simple words. As he put it then, there comes a time when “silence is betrayal”—not only a betrayal of one’s personal convictions, or even of one’s country alone, but also a betrayal of our deeper obligations to one another and to the brotherhood of man.