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1929-1968

~ Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes ~

• Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' 
• We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
• I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. 
• The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
• Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
• The time is always right to do what is right.

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