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Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?
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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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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Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
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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 learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.
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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
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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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Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.
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Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.
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I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.
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Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life love harmonies it. Hatred darkens life love illuminates it.
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If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
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I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity
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We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream.
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The poor never get the job done they are sleepy.
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What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.
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Something should remind us once more that the great things in this universe are things that we never see.
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We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties.
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The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety.
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Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
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