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The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.
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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Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live!
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When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...
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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.
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