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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 would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian.
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Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.
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I'm very glad Christ tells us to love our neighbor and not to like our neighbor because it's hard to like someone threatening your children and throwing fire bombs through your window, but He asks us to love them and that I can do
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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
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If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.
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A productive and happy life is not something you find it is something you make.
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It all boils down to this: that all life is interrelated.
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So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!
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Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.
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One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.
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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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