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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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We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we will not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace
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To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.
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It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans.
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The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.
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Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. This is the calling of the sons of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response. Shall we say the odds are too great? Shall we tell them the struggle is too hard?
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Jesus is not an impractical idealist he is the practical realist.
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Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic.
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Are you able to accept blows without retaliating? and Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?
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Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you.
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My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.
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Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.
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A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
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I would not hesitate to say that it is unfortunate that so-called demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham at this time, but I would say in more emphatic terms that it is even more unfortunate that the white power structure of this city left the Negro community with no other alternative.
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Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
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We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.
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Whom you would change, you must first love.
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One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.
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Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have
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I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.
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Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
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