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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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He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.
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Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
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Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.
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If you want to move people, it has to be toward a vision that's positive for them, that taps important values, that gets them something they desire and it has to be presented in a compelling way so that they feel inspired to follow.
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Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.
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Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
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Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
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Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.
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The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.
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