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But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
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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There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.
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If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.
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A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.
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We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.
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We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was legal and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was illegal. It was illegal to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany.
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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.
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A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy
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We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy
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I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.
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