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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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Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.
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And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality.
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Be true to what you said on paper.
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Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.
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Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.
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The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.
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I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.
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I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.
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It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence.
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I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
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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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If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.
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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity
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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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The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.
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