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If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable.
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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Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
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If we get setbacks and if something happens where the Civil Rights Bill is watered down, for instance, if the Negro feels that he can do nothing but move from one ghetto to another and one slum to another, the despair and the disappointment will be so great that it will be very difficult to keep the struggle disciplined and nonviolent.
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[Malcolm X] had said a great deal about nonviolence, criticizing nonviolence, and saying that I approved of Negro men and women being bitten by dogs and the fire hoses, and I say, say go on and not defend yourself. I think this kind of response grew out of the build up, all of the talk about my being a sort of polished Uncle Tom.
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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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As marvelous as the stars is the mind of the person who studies them.
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If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
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And see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky.
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A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.
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There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom.
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And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
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The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
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Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
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We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.
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What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?
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I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.
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The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.
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