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We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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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May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with justice. Leaders not in love with money, but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the greatness of the cause.
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The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.
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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas.
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My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.
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The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.
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Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.
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Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.
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Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.
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Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism... We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.
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We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.
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You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.
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We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
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We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.
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We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.
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If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree
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There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.
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The Universe is on the side of Justice
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