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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.

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Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at time of challenge and controversy.

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The time is always right to do what is right.

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Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today.

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Whatever your life’ work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

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Our lives begin to end the day we stop caring for whit is important.

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Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.

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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

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