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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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My friends, all I'm trying to say is that if we are to go forward today, we've got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we've left behind. That's the only way that we would be able to make of our world a better world, and to make of this world what God wants it to be and the real purpose and meaning of it.
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I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.
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When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.
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Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
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Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.
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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
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