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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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The Universe is on the side of Justice
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In the struggle for human rights and justice, Negros will make a mistake if they become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns.
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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
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I feel that the time is always right to do what is right. Where progress for the Negro in America is concerned, there is a tragic misconception of time among whites. They seem to cherish a strange, irrational notion that something in the very flow of time will cure all ills.
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One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.
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The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
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It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many
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So when Jesus says Love your enemies, he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.
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I am what I am because of who we all are.
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Within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals.
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The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.
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Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive.
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