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We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.
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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Power is the ability to achieve purpose.
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God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
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A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.
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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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There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.
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We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word . . . Their powerful gospel put an end to such barbaric evils as infanticide and bloody gladiatorial contests. Finally, they captured the Roman Empire for Jesus Christ.
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Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.
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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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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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The poor never get the job done they are sleepy.
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There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.
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My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.
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If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
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Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
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Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.
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