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Nothing pains some people more than having to think
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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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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I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence
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There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.
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When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.
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The law of An eye for an eye will eventually leave everyone blind.
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I just want to do God’s will.
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The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.
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Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate.
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Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
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We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
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Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.
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But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
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If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness.
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Three simple words can describe the nature of the social revolution that is talking place and what Negroes really want. They are the words all, now, and here.
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The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
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In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
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Is is always time to do the right thing.
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
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I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.
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Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.
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