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Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.
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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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
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Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world.
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As marvelous as the stars is the mind of the person who studies them.
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We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.
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This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
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We must all learn to live together as brothers. Or we will all perish together as foolsFor some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.
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A lie cannot live.
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Everyone has an opportunity to be great because everyone has an opportunity to serve.
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You're as good as anybody.
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I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for the brotherhood of man.
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It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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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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In the struggle for human rights and justice, Negros will make a mistake if they become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns.
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But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.
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We must use time creatively.
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Be sure to play Blessed Lord tonight - play it real pretty.
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