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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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If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
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We must all learn to live together as brothers. Or we will all perish together as foolsFor some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.
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Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.
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Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.
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A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.
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My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.
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In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.
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There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid or day laborer
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The poor never get the job done they are sleepy.
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Our goal is to create a beloved community, said Dr. King, and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.
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One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
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I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.
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I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence
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To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.
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