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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther king was born on the 15th of January, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia,
in the United States of America. He died on the 4th of April, 1968
in Memphis, Tennessee, in the United States of America.
Published books by Martin Luther King include "Stride toward freedom;
the Montgomery story", "Strength to Love", "The Measure
of a Man", and "The Trumpet of Conscience".
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- If the worst in
American life lurked in its dark streets, the best of American instincts
arose passionately from across the nation to overcome it.
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- The confrontation
of good and evil compressed in the tiny community of Selma generated
the massive power to turn the whole nation to a new course.
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- President Johnson
rightly praised the courage of the Negro for awakening the conscience
of the nation.
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- On our part we
must pay our profound respects to the white Americans who cherish their
democratic traditions over the ugly customs and privileges of generations.
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- In focusing the
attention of the nation and the world today on the flagrant denial of
the right to vote, we are exposing the very origin, the root cause,
of racial segregation in the Southland.
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- Racial segregation
as a way of life did not come about as a natural result of hatred between
the races immediately after the Civil War.
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- Why, if the poor
white plantation or mill worker became dissatisfied with his low wages,
the plantation or mill owner would merely threaten to fire him and hire
former Negro slaves and pay him even less. Thus, the southern wage level
was kept almost unbearably low.
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- Through their control
of mass media, they revised the doctrine of white supremacy. They saturated
the thinking of the poor white masses with it.
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- They segregated
southern minds from honest thinking; and they segregated the Negro from
everything.
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- Today I want to
say to the people of America and the nations of the world, that we are
not about to turn around. We are on the move now.
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- Yes, we are on
the move and no wave of racism can stop us.
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- The beating and
killing of our clergymen and young people will not divert us. We are
on the move now.
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- Like an idea whose
time has come, not even the marching of mighty armies can halt us. We
are moving to the land of freedom.
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- Let us march on
segregated housing until every ghetto or social and economic depression
dissolves, and Negroes and whites live side by side in decent, safe,
and sanitary housing.
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- The battle is in
our hands. And we can answer with creative nonviolence the call to higher
ground to which the new directions of our struggle summons us.
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- In the glow of
the lamplight on my desk a few nights ago, I gazed again upon the wondrous
sign of our times, full of hope and promise of the future.
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- My people, my people,
listen. (Yes, sir) The battle is in our hands. The battle is in our
hands in Mississippi and Alabama and all over the United States.
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- The only normalcy
that we will settle for is the normalcy that recognizes the dignity
and worth of all of God’s children.
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