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Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes
Short Bio:
Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia on the 15th of January 1929. He was an activist and pasture who was a leader and spokesperson in the civil rights movement.
More Notable Quotes:
"Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed.
"Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?
"The time is always right to do what is right.
"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.
"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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