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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Age: 39 †
Born: 1929
Born: January 15
Died: 1968
Died: April 4
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A time comes when silence is betrayal.
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Are you able to accept blows without retaliating? and Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?
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Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
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Certainly I'm not saying that you sit down and patiently accept injustice. I'm talking about a very strong force, where you stand up with all your might against an evil system, and you are not a coward.
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Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.
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No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity
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We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon to give aid to the beggar who finds himself in misery and agony on life's highway. But one day, we must ask the question of whether an edifice which produces beggars must not be restructured and refurbished.
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If you can’t run, walk if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!
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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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Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.
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I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more.
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The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.
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A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live.
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Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth
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I do think there must be centralized leadership in the sense that, say, in our struggle all of the leaders coordinate their efforts, cooperate and, and at least evince a degree of unity.
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We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties.
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People are often led to causes and often become committed to great ideas through persons who personify those ideas. They have to find the embodiment of the idea in flesh and blood in order to commit themselves to it.
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Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
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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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The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
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