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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.

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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We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
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The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.
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It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans.
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For years now I have heard the word wait. It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This wait has almost always meant never.
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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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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
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I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.
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I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being totally committed to the breakdown of segregation.
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Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
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Nonviolent resistance makes it possible for the Negro to remain in the South and struggle for his rights. The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.
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Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
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School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.
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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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A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions....A ny religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.
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Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.
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We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.
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My friends, all I'm trying to say is that if we are to go forward today, we've got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we've left behind. That's the only way that we would be able to make of our world a better world, and to make of this world what God wants it to be and the real purpose and meaning of it.
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We must work passionately and unrelentingly for the goal of freedom, but we must be sure that our hands are clean in the struggle. We must never struggle with falsehood, hate, or malice. We must never become bitter.
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