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I hate it when people quote me on the internet, claiming I said things that I never actually said.
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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I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.
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The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety.
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Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.
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When we rise in the morning... at the table we drink coffee which is provided to us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African before we leave for our jobs we are already beholden to more than half the world.
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In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.
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Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.
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I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation, and that something could well happen to me at any time. I feel, though, that my cause is so right, so moral, that if I should lose my life, in some way it would aid the cause.
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Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
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Our goal is to create a beloved community, said Dr. King, and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.
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It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
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Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth
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Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.
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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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Our eternal message of hope is that dawn will come.
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Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live!
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In a real sense faith is total surrender to God .
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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
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