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Our goal is to create a beloved community, said Dr. King, and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Age: 39 †
Born: 1929
Born: January 15
Died: 1968
Died: April 4
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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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Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.
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I think that we've got to come to see this. The Negro is an American.
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
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A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.
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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
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Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.
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Find a voice in a whisper.
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Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth
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I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal “oughtness” that forever confronts him.
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If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.
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You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.
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Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.
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Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
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Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.
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Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all.
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Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.
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We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.
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