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Power is the ability to achieve purpose.
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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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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White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words of the ancient negro spiritual, Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty! We are free at last!
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We cannot walk alone.
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Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
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Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.
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Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, 'Love your enemies.' It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals.
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There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.
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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. In any cause that concerns the progress of mankind, put your faith in the nonconformist!
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[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.
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One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.
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There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.
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I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn't popular to talk about it in some circles today. I'm not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I'm talking about a strong, demanding love.
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I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence
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Violence brings only temporary victories violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.
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