"I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude."

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"I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude."

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"My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.""

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