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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
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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The unemployed, poverty-stricken white man must be made to realize that he is in the very same boat with the Negro. Together, they could exert massive pressure on the government to get jobs for all. Together, they could form a grand alliance. Together, they could merge all people for the good of all.
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The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.
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I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.
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We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.
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The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms of freedom and justice. But the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.
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Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.
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The conservatives who say, Let us not move so fast, and the extremists who say, Let us go out and whip the world , would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free.
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Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will always be a slave. For all another man needs to do is threaten to take your life to get you to do his bidding.
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A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look on uneasily upon the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation.
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The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
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The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.
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I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.
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True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved. We are called to be the Good Samaritan, but after you lift so many people out of the ditch you start to ask, maybe the whole road to Jericho needs to be repaved.
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Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.
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[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.
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The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
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Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.
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The Universe is on the side of Justice
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And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for everybody. Means and ends are inseparable. The means represent the ideal in the making in the long run of history destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.
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