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Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.
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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Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having their legs off, and then being condemned for being a cripple.
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Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.
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Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
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To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.
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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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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 want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness.
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I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by the side of the road after they have been beaten up and robbed.I want to change the Jericho road, so that everybody has an opportunity for a job, education, security, health.
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And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
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True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
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O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
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Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.
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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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Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
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Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone
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When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...
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The end of violence or the aftermath of violence is bitterness. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of a beloved community. A boycott is never an end within itself. It is merely a means to awaken a sense of shame within the oppressor but the end is reconciliation, the end is redemption.
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Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth
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