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Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.
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Black Human Love Need Victim Violence White
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
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Attitude Destroy Himself Myself Opinion People Talk
Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.
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Books Home Hospital Nation Togetherness Tools War
Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.
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Fools Freedom Lost Man Mindset Mistake Woman
You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.
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Beg Earn Grant Refusal
Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Hope Ideal Stand Time
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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Criminal Deserve Kind Society
But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
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God Live Ourselves Response White
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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Guide Live Tools Tragedy Wisdom
Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
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Domination Journey Light Reason Victim World
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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Goal Human Liberty Society Value
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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Bend Change Generation Greatness History Small Work
You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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Greatness Happiness Yourself
I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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Aware Obligation Stay Thinking
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Change Enemy Motivation Progress Word
The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.
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Achievement Challenge Future Generation Gift Present

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