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I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.
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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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
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He (Jesus) knew that the old eye-for-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with aggressive love.
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Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times.
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People are often led to causes and often become committed to great ideas through persons who personify those ideas. They have to find the embodiment of the idea in flesh and blood in order to commit themselves to it.
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I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
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I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself nobody else can speak for you.
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A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.
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This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.
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Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.
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The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.
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Men often hate each other because they fear each other they fear each other because they don't know each other they don't know each other because they can not communicate they can not communicate because they are separated.
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I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more.
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Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.
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We as Christians have a mandate to be nonconformists.
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One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.
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Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.
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