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"I never saw it as being political — I just saw it as being…" — Stevie Wonder
c. 2017(Approximate date)· Stevie Wonder (speaker)
“I never saw it as being political — I just saw it as being the right thing to do. I just felt that a man who had fought for the economic, social and civil rights for all people should be recognized for the greatness that he did.”
- Speaker
- Stevie Wonder
- Occasion
- NPR interview, August 30, 2017 (on the MLK-holiday campaign)
Stevie Wonder framing his multi-year push to make Dr. King's birthday a national holiday as recognition owed, not politics.
Sources & citations
- 1.npr.orgwebsite