Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights in the United States through...

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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?

—Martin Luther King Jr.

If a man is called a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

—Emily Dickinson

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

—George Burns

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Chief Roman Nose of the Cheyenne, and his people, believed he was immortal, and he, and they, were right every day of his life except one.

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