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The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.
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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The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.
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If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.
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The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we’ve failed to make of it a brotherhood.
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Friends are forever Boys are whatever.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.
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Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.
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The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence.
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The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.
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The unemployed, poverty-stricken white man must be made to realize that he is in the very same boat with the Negro. Together, they could exert massive pressure on the government to get jobs for all. Together, they could form a grand alliance. Together, they could merge all people for the good of all.
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Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.
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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
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Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.
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Science deals mainly with facts religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.
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We ain't goin' study war no more.
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