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Hate is too heavy a burden to bear.
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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It's very easy for one talking about violence and hatred for the white man to appeal to [Negro from ghetto]. I have never thought of this, but I think this is quite true, that if, even if you talk to them about nonviolence from a tactical point of view, they can't quite see it because they don't even know they're outnumbered.
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For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.
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School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.
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