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If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.
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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Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.
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By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth, is essential if we are to be transformed nonconformists . . . Only through an inner spiritual transformation do we gain the strength to fight vigorously the evils of the world in a humble and loving spirit.
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I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.
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If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.
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Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
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Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.
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The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes.
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Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.
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Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.
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The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.
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Science deals mainly with facts religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.
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Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status quo, whoever would be a Christian must be a nonconformist.
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth,to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?
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As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.
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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
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The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.
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Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
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When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.
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