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Man is not made for the state the state is made for man. To deprive man of freedom is to relegate him to the status of a thing, rather than elevate him to the status of a person. Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

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 is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
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The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.
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We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.
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Never, never be afraid to do what's right.
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Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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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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If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
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Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.
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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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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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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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