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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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I would urge you to give priority to the search for God. Allow his spirit to permeate your being. ... If you do not have a deep and patient faith in God, you will be powerless to face the delays, disappointments, and vicissitudes that inevitably come.
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... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.
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The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest.
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The 'tide in the affairs of men' does not remain at the flood it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residue of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: 'Too late...'
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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Violence brings only temporary victories violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.
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Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic.
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I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.
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One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.
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The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.
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Be the best of whatever you are.
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Don't let anybody take your manhood.
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Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.
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I think that we've got to come to see this. The Negro is an American.
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Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere.
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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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We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man.
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It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
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