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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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Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.
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We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.
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Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.
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No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity
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We all can't be famous but we can all be great and we become great when we serve others
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Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
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Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.
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The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we’ve failed to make of it a brotherhood.
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Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.
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Hate destroys the hater.
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Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.
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We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.
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Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
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Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.
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A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.
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Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
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Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.
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Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.
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