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My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.
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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There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is created in our lifetime, it will be done by rejecting the racism, materialism, and violence that has characterized Western civilization and especially by working toward a world of brotherhood, cooperation, and peace.
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If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation and this means we must develop a world perspective.
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In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying to that man that he has no right to exist. You are in a real way depriving him of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, denying in his case the very creed of his society.
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Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate.
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The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.
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... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.
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We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.
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You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.
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Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
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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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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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When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.
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White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words of the ancient negro spiritual, Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty! We are free at last!
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There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.
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