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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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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
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Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.
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We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces they don't know what to do.
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We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.
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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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The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trail-blazers in human, scientific and religious freedom have always been in a minority.
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Our children need our presence, not our presents.
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If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas.
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Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.
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Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.
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