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Martin Luther King Jr.
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FindCenter Quotes ImageHuman progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageI have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageI became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageHe who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIf I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageLife’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

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FindCenter Quotes ImageTrue compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageOur lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

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