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Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere.
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 failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.
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We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
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It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
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The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.
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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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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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To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.
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Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
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We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.
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I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to die for, Then his life is worth nothing.
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