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To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
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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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
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Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.
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Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Our hope for creative living lies in our ability to reestablish the spiritual needs of our lives in personal character and social justice. Without this spiritual and moral reawakening we shall destroy ourselves in the misuse of our own instruments.
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I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.
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