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Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.
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 America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.
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Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.
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[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.
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