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Love is a usually force able of transforming an rivalry into friend.
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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Everyone has an opportunity to be great because everyone has an opportunity to serve.
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When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...
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I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for the brotherhood of man.
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