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The mural credits Martin Luther King Jr. with “No one is free until we all are,” though the exact wording has a tangled attribution history. King often made the same argument, including his famous warning that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Fannie Lou Hamer used the even closer “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free” in a 1971 speech. There’s a Kentucky connection, too. Hamer spoke in the state in 1968 about voting rights, Jim Crow, and interracial unity.