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A time comes when silence is betrayal.
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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Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
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We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you....Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and, as difficult as it is, we will still love you.
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Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
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I think there can be a collective leadership. Maybe some symbolize the struggle [for human's rights] a little more than others, but I think it's absolutely necessary for the leadership to be united in order to make the revolution effective.
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The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.
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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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There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential neighborhoods so long that when one of us is finally sold a home, it's already depreciated.
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Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic.
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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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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
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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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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
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Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
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The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character the barriers to be overcome require both.
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To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting, costly to the society but not wantonly destructive, moreover, it is more difficult for Government to quell it by superior force.
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Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?
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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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