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Unarmed love is the most powerful force in all the world.
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If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come to a point where you accept the possibility philosophically.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.
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In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self.
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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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Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.
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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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The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
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Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
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Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.
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I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the man I could be; I may not be the man I truly can be; but praise God, I'm not the man I once was.
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When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying to that man that he has no right to exist. You are in a real way depriving him of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, denying in his case the very creed of his society.
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We must all learn to live together as brothers. Or we will all perish together as foolsFor some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.
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I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
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Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt and enmeshed in evil that there is no possibility of salvation from within.
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But I say to you, my friends, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize.
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I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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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An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.
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Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.
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The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.
Martin Luther King, Jr.