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Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth
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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Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts, religion deals with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.
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Are you able to accept blows without retaliating? and Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?
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Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
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The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
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There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence.
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It's not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.
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We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.
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Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.
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The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.
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The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.
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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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The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.
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We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.
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For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.
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Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.
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You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would, didn't want to deal with the moral questions, it would just be impractical for the Negro to talk about making his struggle a violent one.
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I just want to do God’s will.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
