The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided man.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Topic

Technological progress Moral progress Progress

Author

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source

The Man Who Was a Fool

Medium

Sermon

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Black activist Civil rights activist Clergyman Christian

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United States

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "The Man Who Was a Fool." Detroit Council of Churches' Noon Lenten Services. 6 Mar. 1961, Detroit, MI, USA.

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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

James Baldwin

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Topic
Nature of freedom Liberation Freedom

Author

James Baldwin
Source
Notes for a Hypothetical Novel Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son
Medium
Essay
Language
English
Time
1961 1960s 20th century
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Baldwin, James. "Notes for a Hypothetical Novel." Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son. Dial Press, 1961.

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We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Walt Whitman

Pioneers! O Pioneers!

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Walt Whitman
Source
Pioneers! O Pioneers! Leaves of Grass
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1867 1860s 19th century
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Whitman, Walt. "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" Leaves of Grass. New York: Self-published, 1867, st. 2. Originally published in Drum-Taps. New York: Peter Eckler, 1865, st. 2.