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unearned suffering is redemptive.
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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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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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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The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.
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Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.
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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal
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Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will always be a slave. For all another man needs to do is threaten to take your life to get you to do his bidding.
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Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job.
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We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.
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Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future.
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The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.
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And see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky.
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From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action
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If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living
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As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved. We are called to be the Good Samaritan, but after you lift so many people out of the ditch you start to ask, maybe the whole road to Jericho needs to be repaved.
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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
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In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.
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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated quality education.
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With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in theory emphasized a classless society, and a concern for social justice, though the world knows from sad experience that in practice it created new classes and a new lexicon of injustice.
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