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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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Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. This is the calling of the sons of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response. Shall we say the odds are too great? Shall we tell them the struggle is too hard?
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It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, 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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It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.
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We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.
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A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.
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Nonviolent resistance makes it possible for the Negro to remain in the South and struggle for his rights. The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.
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As marvelous as the stars is the mind of the person who studies them.
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Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.
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I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.
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One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.
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Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.
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I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind.
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It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always maintain a kind of divine discontent.
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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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Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
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Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it
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The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.
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