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If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.
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 lie cannot live.
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We know nothing about Africa, although our roots are there in terms of our forbearers. But I mean as far as the average Negro today, he knows nothing about Africa. And I think he's got to face the fact that he is an American, his culture is basically American, and one becomes adjusted to this when he realizes what, what he is.
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A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.
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No one is free until we are all free.
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If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws.
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A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions....A ny religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.
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Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
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Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.
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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
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Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times.
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Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having their legs off, and then being condemned for being a cripple.
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If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas.
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Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.
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There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.
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I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.
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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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