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To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.
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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There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is created in our lifetime, it will be done by rejecting the racism, materialism, and violence that has characterized Western civilization and especially by working toward a world of brotherhood, cooperation, and peace.
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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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Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpent-like qualities is to be sentimental, anemic and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.
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A lie cannot live.
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We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live.
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He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'
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[Malcolm X] had said a great deal about nonviolence, criticizing nonviolence, and saying that I approved of Negro men and women being bitten by dogs and the fire hoses, and I say, say go on and not defend yourself. I think this kind of response grew out of the build up, all of the talk about my being a sort of polished Uncle Tom.
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Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
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The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open
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I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.
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I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind.
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Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.
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To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
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You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
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The poor never get the job done they are sleepy.
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Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
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I'm very glad Christ tells us to love our neighbor and not to like our neighbor because it's hard to like someone threatening your children and throwing fire bombs through your window, but He asks us to love them and that I can do
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