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The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.
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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One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.
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The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trail-blazers in human, scientific and religious freedom have always been in a minority.
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This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.
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To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.
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