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A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy
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 man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.
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If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.
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I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
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Don't let anybody take your manhood.
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To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.
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A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.
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Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.
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Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.
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The time is always right to do what is right.
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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
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The end of violence or the aftermath of violence is bitterness. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of a beloved community. A boycott is never an end within itself. It is merely a means to awaken a sense of shame within the oppressor but the end is reconciliation, the end is redemption.
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There is no deficit in human resources the deficit is in human will.
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Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.
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Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status quo, whoever would be a Christian must be a nonconformist.
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We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.
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All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America in doing so, the affluent Americans will eventually have to face themselves with the question that Eichman chose to ignore: How responsible am I for the well-being of my fellows?
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So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!
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As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.
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My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.
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