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Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.
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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I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, He died to make men free.
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I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
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Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.
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The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?
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Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
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I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more.
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Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness.
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Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world.
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Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.
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You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.
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I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.
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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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The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.
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With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in theory emphasized a classless society, and a concern for social justice, though the world knows from sad experience that in practice it created new classes and a new lexicon of injustice.
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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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Hate destroys the hater.
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I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear.
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Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job.
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