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I just want to leave a committed life behind.
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 group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.
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I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and the root of the problem. He was an eloquent spokesman for his point of view and no one can honestly doubt that Malcolm had a great concern for the problems we face as a race.
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A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.
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Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.
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A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.
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For you all think God is one who rewards good and punishes evil, but I say to you that God is one who loves you and has compassion for everyone. You just have to pray to Him and believe in Him. He will always be your guiding light.
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A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.
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This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy - a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.
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Hate is too heavy a burden to bear.
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As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must never adjust ourselves to racial segregation. We must never adjust ourselves to religious bigotry. We must never adjust ourselves to economic conditions that take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.
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In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self.
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Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.
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The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it
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The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.
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Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.
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