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Nina Ahmad: “Martin Luther King was 29 years old [when he was leading…”

Featuring: Nina Ahmad, Democratic | Philadelphia City Council At-large | Pennsylvania

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A Weekend Interview with Nina Ahmad

Published | Video Starts at 21:57

How do you think we have the vote? Somebody protested and died so that we have the vote. So. And guess what? When we got the vote. Those were mostly young people. You know, Martin Luther King was 29 years old [when he was leading movements]. That's not very old. Right. So we're talking young people have been driving all our movements in our. Across the. Across the globe, not just in this country. (21:57–22:00)

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