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Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.

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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Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.
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The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trail-blazers in human, scientific and religious freedom have always been in a minority.
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