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In a real sense faith is total surrender to God .
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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Today, is a great day to make a difference for someone. 'I have a dream'.
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Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.
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There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. [...] The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. [...] To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.
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When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters.
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We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.
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Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.
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That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
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