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We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces they don't know what to do.
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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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.
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Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.
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Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
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Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere.
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I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain with the Negro for his freedom.
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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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Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.
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We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.
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From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action
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I would not hesitate to say that it is unfortunate that so-called demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham at this time, but I would say in more emphatic terms that it is even more unfortunate that the white power structure of this city left the Negro community with no other alternative.
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I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
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It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.
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