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Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.
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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Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
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My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.
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Today, is a great day to make a difference for someone. 'I have a dream'.
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The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
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The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.
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Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.
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The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.
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The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
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Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.
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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
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If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
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Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.
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