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I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.
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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There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.
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The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.
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Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.
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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
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The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.
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He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'
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Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.
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Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
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To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.
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