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Is is always time to do the right thing.
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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A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.
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If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.
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Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?
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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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He who is greatest among you shall be a servant. That's the new definition of greatness. ... By giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.
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