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History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.
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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May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with justice. Leaders not in love with money, but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the greatness of the cause.
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Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation.
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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
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We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.
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Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.
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The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.
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The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.
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Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive.
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My friends, all I'm trying to say is that if we are to go forward today, we've got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we've left behind. That's the only way that we would be able to make of our world a better world, and to make of this world what God wants it to be and the real purpose and meaning of it.
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Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.
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A lie cannot live.
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When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity he wants to speak for himself.
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I may not be the man I want to be I may not be the man I ought to be I may not be the man I could be I may not be the man I truly can be but praise God, I'm not the man I once was
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The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.
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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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A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.
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We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
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To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.
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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
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That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
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