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A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Age: 39 †
Born: 1929
Born: January 15
Died: 1968
Died: April 4
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Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.
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We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.
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Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.
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What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?
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I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.
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Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.
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A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.
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We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was legal and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was illegal. It was illegal to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany.
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Whom you would change, you must first love.
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