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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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Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.
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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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All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
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I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.
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Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.
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In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.
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Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.
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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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Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
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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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Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.
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Our goal is to create a beloved community, said Dr. King, and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.
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The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
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