"Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.“
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"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent."
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"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
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"Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control."
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"It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it."
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"War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow."
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"I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived."
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