The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative malad… - Martin Luther King Jr.
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The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (15 January 1929 – 4 April 1968) was an American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize of 1964. He was the husband of Coretta Scott King, and father of Yolanda King and Martin Luther King III.
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Michael King Jr.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Martin Luther King
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Michael King
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Dr. King
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M. L. King
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M.L. King
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ML King
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MLK
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Martin Luther King Junior
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Michael King Junior
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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just — and God is with us.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
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Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter — but beautiful — struggle for a new world. This is the calling of the sons of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response. Shall we say the odds are too great? Shall we tell them the struggle is too hard? Will our message be that the forces of American life militate against their arrival as full men, and we send our deepest regrets? Or will there be another message, of longing, of hope, of solidarity with their yearnings, of commitment to their cause, whatever the cost? The choice is ours, and though we might prefer it otherwise we must choose in this crucial moment of human history.
