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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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Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.
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There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential neighborhoods so long that when one of us is finally sold a home, it's already depreciated.
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An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.
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Men often hate each other because they fear each other they fear each other because they don't know each other they don't know each other because they can not communicate they can not communicate because they are separated.
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The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.
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To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.
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We decided to set our direct-action program around the Easter season, realizing that, with exception of Christmas, this was the largest shopping period of the year. Knowing that a strong economic withdrawal program would be the by-product of direct action.
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We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.
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God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless.
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Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind
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Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.
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For years now I have heard the word wait. It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This wait has almost always meant never.
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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
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A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live.
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