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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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I question and soul-search constantly into myself to be as certain as I can that I am fulfilling the true meaning of my work, that I am maintaining my sense of purpose, that I am holding fast to my ideals, that I am guiding my people in the right direction.
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As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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The law of An eye for an eye will eventually leave everyone blind.
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We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.
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The poor never get the job done they are sleepy.
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Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
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I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being totally committed to the breakdown of segregation.
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One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.
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A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
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We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.
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White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words of the ancient negro spiritual, Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty! We are free at last!
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Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness.
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Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.
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The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity
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There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.
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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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Three simple words can describe the nature of the social revolution that is talking place and what Negroes really want. They are the words all, now, and here.
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Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.
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