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The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

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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Even though I have never had an abrupt conversion experience, religion has been real to me and closely knitted to life. In fact the two cannot be separated religion for me is life.
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We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society . . . . What America must be told today is that she must be born again. The whole structure of American life must be changed.
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Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.
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I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.
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You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
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The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.
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The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character the barriers to be overcome require both.
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The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
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I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest.
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We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy
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Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.
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I do think there must be centralized leadership in the sense that, say, in our struggle all of the leaders coordinate their efforts, cooperate and, and at least evince a degree of unity.
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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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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
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There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
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Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.
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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
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Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.
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It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham.... The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation of the Negro.
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