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A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live.
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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You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would, didn't want to deal with the moral questions, it would just be impractical for the Negro to talk about making his struggle a violent one.
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There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.
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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
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Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.
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We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.
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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
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We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.
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I just want to leave a committed life behind.
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It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
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The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
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It's very easy for one talking about violence and hatred for the white man to appeal to [Negro from ghetto]. I have never thought of this, but I think this is quite true, that if, even if you talk to them about nonviolence from a tactical point of view, they can't quite see it because they don't even know they're outnumbered.
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The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes.
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The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
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The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.
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Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
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What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?
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A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
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Our destiny is tied up with the destiny of America.
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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
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