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Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.
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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A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.
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I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
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Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater. [...] when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe so love everybody.
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