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Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.
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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I think that we've got to come to see this. The Negro is an American.
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We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.
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It's not how long you live, it's how well you live.
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If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
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Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.
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The belief that God will do everything for man is as untenable as the belief that man can do everything for himself. It, too, is based on a lack of faith. We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.
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We decided to set our direct-action program around the Easter season, realizing that, with exception of Christmas, this was the largest shopping period of the year. Knowing that a strong economic withdrawal program would be the by-product of direct action.
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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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In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.
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I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation, and that something could well happen to me at any time. I feel, though, that my cause is so right, so moral, that if I should lose my life, in some way it would aid the cause.
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While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important.
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Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.
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We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.
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Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.
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Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.
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