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The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found
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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If you can’t run, walk if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!
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I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear.
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Today, is a great day to make a difference for someone. 'I have a dream'.
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Certainly I'm not saying that you sit down and patiently accept injustice. I'm talking about a very strong force, where you stand up with all your might against an evil system, and you are not a coward.
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You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.
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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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God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
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Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
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There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people.
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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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And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land
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We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is not over- only the present conflict has ceased. There will be no peace as long as we react to violence with violence.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.
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I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.
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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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The law of An eye for an eye will eventually leave everyone blind.
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Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.
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There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good.
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