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What inspired Maya Lin's concept for the Civil Rights Memorial?

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... her admiration of a line in Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, which proclaims that the struggle for civil rights will not be complete "until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream ...

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