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I’ve been to the Mountaintop
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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A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for
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Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.
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The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.
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Whom you would change, you must first love.
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
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A time comes when silence is betrayal.
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Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.
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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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I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being totally committed to the breakdown of segregation.
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As marvelous as the stars is the mind of the person who studies them.
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A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal
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It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
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One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right if the head is totally wrong. Only through the bringing together of head and heart-intelligence and goodness-shall man rise to a fulfillment of his true nature.
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I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation, and that something could well happen to me at any time. I feel, though, that my cause is so right, so moral, that if I should lose my life, in some way it would aid the cause.
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We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.
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Be sure to play Blessed Lord tonight - play it real pretty.
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