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We must substitute courage for caution.
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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It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'
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Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?
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You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would, didn't want to deal with the moral questions, it would just be impractical for the Negro to talk about making his struggle a violent one.
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I think a revolution can survive without single centralized leadership.
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Our children need our presence, not our presents.
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The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.
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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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Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation.
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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
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If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over.
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If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree
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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy... In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
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Our goal is to create a beloved community, said Dr. King, and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.
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I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more.
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Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.
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Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
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There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people.
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We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you....Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and, as difficult as it is, we will still love you.
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The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.
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