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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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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We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.
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A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.
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He (Jesus) knew that the old eye-for-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with aggressive love.
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The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die
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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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One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.
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The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.
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He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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I have a dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, justice dreaming, dreaming of equality and hopefully no longer required to dream them
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I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.
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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
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Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater. [...] when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe so love everybody.
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But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.
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We must use time creatively.
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Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.
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Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
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The time is always right to do what is right.
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Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war... Nothing can be more destructive of our fundamental democratic traditions than the vicious effort to silence dissenters.
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A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.
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The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.
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