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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King was an amazing author that was born in 1929 on January 15th. During the 1960s he became known far and wide as being one of the Civil Rights Movement's most prominent advocates. He also followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather and joined the ministry of the African-American Baptist church. In 1964, he earned recognition through his efforts of a social change through strategies that were non-violent and received the award of the Nobel Peace prize. The year following his marriage to Coretta Scott in 1953, he started serving as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama. In recognition of his powerful speeches and captivating voice, he was named Times 'Man of the Year' in 1963.

Date of Birth: January 15, 1929
Date of Death: April 04, 1968
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"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
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"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict."
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"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
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"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
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Defense
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"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
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"Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality."
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Adultery
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"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it."
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"The arm of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
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Justice
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"Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
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People Thoughts And Thinking
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"It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society."
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"There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love."
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American Leader Disappointment
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"No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."
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Dissatisfaction Justice
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"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."
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"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
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"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
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"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
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"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
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