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The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

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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Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
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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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Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.
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For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.
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A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.
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[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.
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Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down. --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris
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We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon to give aid to the beggar who finds himself in misery and agony on life's highway. But one day, we must ask the question of whether an edifice which produces beggars must not be restructured and refurbished.
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[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems.
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There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.
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Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.
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The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.
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The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open
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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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The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity
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He who is greatest among you shall be a servant. That's the new definition of greatness. ... By giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.
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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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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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If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
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God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless.
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