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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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 can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.
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I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated quality education.
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He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'
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Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having their legs off, and then being condemned for being a cripple.
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I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.
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I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain with the Negro for his freedom.
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My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.
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I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest.
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Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.
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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
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Today, is a great day to make a difference for someone. 'I have a dream'.
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The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
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A time comes when silence is betrayal.
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Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives.
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If you've got nothing worth dying for, you've got nothing worth living for.
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Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.
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This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
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In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.
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... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.
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