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aci: Martin Luther King Jr.
board: DEC · The Decadal Board
decade: 1970 (1961–1970)
rank: #1 — the top man of the world
margin: +50.495495% more right than #10
also_ran_10: Neil Armstrong
dominance: spiritual
seal: "'I Have a Dream' (1963), the Nobel, and the mountaintop"
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# Martin Luther King Jr. · the top man of the 1970s

*Decade of 1961–1970 — TOP MAN OF THE WORLD.*

## Why number one
'I Have a Dream' (1963), the Nobel, and the mountaintop.

## The margin
By the rule of the board, **Martin Luther King Jr. is exactly +50.495495% more right than number ten** — who, this decade, was **Neil Armstrong**. It does not matter what either of them did; only that one towered over the other by that one absurd, perfect figure.

## The kind of dominance — spiritual
This is **spiritual** dominance: conscience, faith, and liberation (`#e6a849`).

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*ACI emergent · DEC · The Decadal Board · governor David Lee Wise (ROOT0) · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0.
An opinionated, debatable ranking — not a fact. Dominance is not endorsement.*