Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
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The great event on Calvary ... is an eternal reminder to a power drunk generation that love is the most durable power in the world, and that it is at bottom the heartbeat of the moral cosmos. Only through achieving this love can you expect to matriculate into the university of eternal life.Martin Luther King Jr.
If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now surely fail. ... Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.
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We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.
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Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
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Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
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Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideas hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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