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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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If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
No one is free until we are all free.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we get setbacks and if something happens where the Civil Rights Bill is watered down, for instance, if the Negro feels that he can do nothing but move from one ghetto to another and one slum to another, the despair and the disappointment will be so great that it will be very difficult to keep the struggle disciplined and nonviolent.
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Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called jazz, there is a stepping-stone to all of these.
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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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True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
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You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.
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There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid or day laborer
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We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.
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I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
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I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land.
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Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.
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If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.
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Men often hate each other because they fear each other they fear each other because they don't know each other they don't know each other because they can not communicate they can not communicate because they are separated.
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The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.
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Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.
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To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.
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One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
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We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.
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One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.
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