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It was not what he said. It was that he said it at the right moment that made a remark of Marvin Brown stand out in my memory for more than 45 years. What he said was obvious. Saying it when he did made an indelible impression on me. The scene was a Baptist church in a small Georgia town. As the presiding minister I was leading a funeral procession to the church cemetery. Marvin Brown was one of the pallbearers carrying the body of a long-time resident of that little town to his final resting place. We walked in silence.