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Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone
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 had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.
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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
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Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
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When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...
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Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice.
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... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.
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We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.
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True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved. We are called to be the Good Samaritan, but after you lift so many people out of the ditch you start to ask, maybe the whole road to Jericho needs to be repaved.
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I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal “oughtness” that forever confronts him.
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There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.
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So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
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Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, 'Love your enemies.' It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals.
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Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
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