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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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Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.
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I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being totally committed to the breakdown of segregation.
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.
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There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.
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O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
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Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.
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Our destiny is tied up with the destiny of America.
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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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We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you....Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and, as difficult as it is, we will still love you.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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Love is a usually force able of transforming an rivalry into friend.
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I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for the brotherhood of man.
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Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as the white keys.
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Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status quo, whoever would be a Christian must be a nonconformist.
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Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.
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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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You cannot defect form an insight. You cannot unsee what you have seen.
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