"If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive."
― Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Death
More From Martin Luther King, Jr.
- "I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood."
- "Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
- "We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
More In Death
- "Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death."― Socrates
- "Pale Death beats equally at the poor man’s gate and at the palaces of kings."― Horace
- "It pains me whenever there’s the death of a law enforcement official."― Eric Holder