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Something should remind us once more that the great things in this universe are things that we never see.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Age: 39 †
Born: 1929
Born: January 15
Died: 1968
Died: April 4
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Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.
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When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.
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The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life.
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I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.
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The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.
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If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.
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Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.
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Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world
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Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.
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Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.
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It all boils down to this: that all life is interrelated.
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You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.
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Let us be practical and ask the question: How do we love our enemies?
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Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate.
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Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. This is the calling of the sons of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response. Shall we say the odds are too great? Shall we tell them the struggle is too hard?
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