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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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A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions....A ny religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.
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Violence brings only temporary victories violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.
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Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.
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I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one...should be a deep belief in your own dignity. Your worth and your own somebodiness... Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.
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Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.
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Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.
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You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would, didn't want to deal with the moral questions, it would just be impractical for the Negro to talk about making his struggle a violent one.
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The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.
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