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The underlined text uses similar language as what other famous document or speech?

A beacon is a guiding light

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice…

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It echoes Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which opens "Four score and seven years ago..." Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Five score years ago..." deliberately alludes to Lincoln to link the Emancipation Proclamation and the struggle for civil rights.