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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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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
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Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.
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[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems.
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You only need a heart full of grace
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Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.
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In spite of its glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communism's methods and philosophy strip man of his dignity and worth, leaving him as little more than a depersonalized cog in the ever-turning wheel of the state.
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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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Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.
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The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence.
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Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.
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Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.
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And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for everybody. Means and ends are inseparable. The means represent the ideal in the making in the long run of history destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.
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There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.
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The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.
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Jesus is not an impractical idealist he is the practical realist.
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If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living
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We as Christians have a mandate to be nonconformists.
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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 a revolution can survive without single centralized leadership.
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