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There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.
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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Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
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Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.
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Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.
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Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
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