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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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More quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.
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The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
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It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
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A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look on uneasily upon the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation.
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Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.
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With the tough mind, there must also be a tender heart.
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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
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Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.
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Everyone has an opportunity to be great because everyone has an opportunity to serve.
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My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.
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The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people
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Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.
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Jesus is not an impractical idealist he is the practical realist.
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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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Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.
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I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
You only need a heart full of grace
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Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
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A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live.
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