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There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.
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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Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater. [...] when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe so love everybody.
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Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you.
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I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to die for, Then his life is worth nothing.
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If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
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A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for
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