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    Dr. King's Quote Today

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    King's famous quote today is “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” People use this in their daily lives to help themselves and help others. Dr. King himself was a very inspiration person. He help many people through rough times, and he still does. He taught us that even though life may be hard now, if we keep a positive side on our side, everything will become great. Its that…

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    Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.- Martin Luther King Jr.This quote means that you should always try to reach your goals even if you don’t know the outcome.Martin always did different actions without knowing what was going to happen next. Martin was an important figure in American History because he was a Baptist minister and social activist, who led the Civil Rights movement.In 1968,Martin was giving a speech in Memphis, Tennessee, called "I’ve been to…

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    He had changed an entire societies views on African American and a new way of protesting. Martin Luther King had practiced many ‘sit -ins’ and encouraged others to do the same. People began practicing doing sit-ins, and learning how to behave when faced against the opposing side during these ‘sit-ins’. During practices they would yell at each other, hit each other, pour things on each other, and even spit on each other so that…

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    read: Vietnam.” Dr. King directly compared the division of America, to the death of a person. The conflict, discrimination, racism, hate, and violence in America is killing the country from the inside out. The virus is internal, the is ripping apart people and sorting them by their…

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    martin Luther king grew he had experiences with discrimination by having white and colored people…

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    What character traits do you think about when you hear the name Martin Luther King Jr.? Martin Luther King Jr. was always strong. He had strengths and had perseverance. If Dr. King did not follow these traits, we would not be equal right now. Martin Luther King Jr. had to use his character traits to make his speeches. Dr.King helped us to be nice to each other and to treat each other equal. Dr.King made different speeches for different things. Martin Luther King Jr. Was born on Tuesday,…

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    others about civil rights and nonviolence (“Loving Your Enemies”). King’s career as a civil rights activist would be kick started when he became partners with Rosa Parks, an iconic figure that pushed back against the immoral rules against dark skinned peoples. This partnership would bring more attention towards King, as well as expand his connections to other civil activists and outlets to speak about nonviolence and equality. King once said “Nonviolence can touch men where the law cannot reach…

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    when Martin Luther king did these and achieved change in racial equality. Above all, she really believed in women's education because she was willing to risk her life to achieve change for women's rights everywhere. She got shot in the head and most people would have stopped but she kept going all she did be move to London away from the Taliban in Afghanistan. She saw that the only way to create change was to sacrifice and so that's what she did. In the book, she thought about all of this and…

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    going to be at risk, but he knew that there was unjust in the community; a community he didn’t want his children to live in. Antigone and Martin Luther King Jr. both believed that an action’s righteousness is not defined by the government but by the people themselves, that rebellion can cause good change, and that one must stand up for what is right, not for what is accepted. They wanted to do to others, what they would have wanted to be done to themselves, so they both stood for what they…

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    democracy with one great group living in ignorance. We cannot have a healthy nation with one-tenth of the people ill-nourished, sick, harboring germs of disease which recognize no color lines-obey no Jim Crow laws. We cannot have a nation orderly and sound with one group so ground down and thwarted that it is almost forced into unsocial attitudes and crime. We cannot have truly Christian people so long as we flout the ventral teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule. We cannot come…

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