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A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.
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 now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.
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In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.
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We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.
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Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.
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Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.
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And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land
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We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.
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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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The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.
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I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity
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If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
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Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.
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We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.
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The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.
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Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
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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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This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
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All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are inevitably our brother's keeper because we are our brother's brother. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.
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There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
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