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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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Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.
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The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest.
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Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.
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Whom you would change, you must first love.
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Certainly I'm not saying that you sit down and patiently accept injustice. I'm talking about a very strong force, where you stand up with all your might against an evil system, and you are not a coward.
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A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
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The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity
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There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must never adjust ourselves to racial segregation. We must never adjust ourselves to religious bigotry. We must never adjust ourselves to economic conditions that take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.
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The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.
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The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.
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As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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I have a dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, justice dreaming, dreaming of equality and hopefully no longer required to dream them
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It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
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We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.
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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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We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.
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If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that's the strong person.
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The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found
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I just want to leave a committed life behind.
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