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There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.
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 had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.
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Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.
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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
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Never, never be afraid to do what's right.
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The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.
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Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as the white keys.
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Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.
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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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Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.
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The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
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The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die
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It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.
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The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.
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If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living
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A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for
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The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
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