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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.

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

— Friedrich Schiller

I always knew my death would be a possible consequence of the work I do. But for me it was a price I was willing to pay because this is what I believed in.

— Lynsey Addario

If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.

— Mitch Albom

When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless.

— Chief Seattle

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

— Chanakya

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

— Alexander Smith

There's not a higher stake than someone having to face their own death.

— Bryce Dallas Howard

There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.

— George Meredith

✗Opposing Perspectives

Colour can raise the dead.

— Iris Apfel

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

— James Weldon Johnson