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'Live the Dream,' Mainers told Martin Luther King's message of racial equality celebrated

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From: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
Date: 20060117
Author:FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS

Mainers recognized Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday with speeches, discussions and remembrances for the slain civil rights leader who worked toward racial equality in America.

Gov. John Baldacci, speaking at the NAACP's Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast in the University of Maine in Orono, noted Monday that King's life and legacy taught that "what we share in our values and convictions can overcome injustice and intolerance."

Baldacci said that there inevitably would be those who fear change and the emergence of different cultures.

"But diversity only strengthens what we have in common," he ...

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