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Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
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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The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.
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Unity has never meant uniformity.
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It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
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If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
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With the tough mind, there must also be a tender heart.
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Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.
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Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.
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In the struggle for human rights and justice, Negros will make a mistake if they become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns.
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In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
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I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind.
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Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.
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Men often hate each other because they fear each other they fear each other because they don't know each other they don't know each other because they can not communicate they can not communicate because they are separated.
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It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always maintain a kind of divine discontent.
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You only need a heart full of grace
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There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. [...] The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. [...] To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.
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Power is the ability to achieve purpose.
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I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.
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Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.
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I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land.
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There is no gain without struggle.
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