The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
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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 doom.Martin Luther King, Jr.
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
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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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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
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That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
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Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
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