"When we rise in the morning ... at the table we drink coffee which is provided to us from South American, or tea from China, or cocoa from West Africa; before we leave for our jobs we are already beholden to more than half the world. [ed]" — Martin Luther King Jr. — — — #MartinLutherKing #quote #quotes #beholden #dependency #others #world

“While Pence aides say he’s taking this position to defend a separation of powers principle, it will allow him to avoid being seen as cooperating with a probe that is politically damaging to Trump, who remains the leading figure in the Republican Party.”

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