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No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity
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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I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being totally committed to the breakdown of segregation.
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We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.
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I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated quality education.
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Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live!
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There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.
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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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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
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Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
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Never, never be afraid to do what's right.
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I would not hesitate to say that it is unfortunate that so-called demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham at this time, but I would say in more emphatic terms that it is even more unfortunate that the white power structure of this city left the Negro community with no other alternative.
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I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.
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Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth
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Love is a usually force able of transforming an rivalry into friend.
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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
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There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.
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