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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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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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I would not hesitate to say that it is unfortunate that so-called demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham at this time, but I would say in more emphatic terms that it is even more unfortunate that the white power structure of this city left the Negro community with no other alternative.
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God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
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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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Our destiny is tied up with the destiny of America.
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There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.
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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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Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.
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For years now I have heard the word wait. It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This wait has almost always meant never.
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We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.
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We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.
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Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
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There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.
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