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Whatever your life’s 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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Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
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Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
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We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
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Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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We must use time creatively.
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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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The time is always right to do what is right.
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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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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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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
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Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
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Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.