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I think a revolution can survive without single centralized leadership.
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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Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.
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Jesus is not an impractical idealist he is the practical realist.
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The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.
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The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
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A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.
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Your truth will increase as you know listen to the truth of others
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Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
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The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we’ve failed to make of it a brotherhood.
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