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I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that t...more

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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true educati...more

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I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism. Far from b...more

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I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final re...more

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One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

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An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the consc...more

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Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

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I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counci...more

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We all came in on different ships, but we're all in the same boat now

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Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must make...more