Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) was a prominent American Christian minister, activist, and civil rights leader. He played a crucial role in the movement for racial equality through nonviolent resistance, leading marches, and advocating for civil rights. King was a key figure in events like the Montgomery bus boycott and the March on Washington, where he delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. As president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, he pushed for desegregation, voting rights, and labor rights. King faced imprisonment and FBI surveillance due to his activism. In 1964, he received the Nobel Peace Prize. His focus expanded to poverty and opposition to the Vietnam War. Assassinated in 1968, King’s legacy endures with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, streets renamed in his honor, and monuments recognizing his contributions to civil rights.
Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes
1. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
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2. “I Have a Dream”
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3. “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
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4. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”
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5. “The time is always right to do the right thing.”
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6. “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
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7. “There is no gain without struggle.”
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8. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
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9. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
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10. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
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11. “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
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12. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”
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13. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
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14. “Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.”
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15. “We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
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16. “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
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17. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
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18. “A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.”
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19. “No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”
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20. “Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
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21. “Judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.”
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22. “Hate destroys the hater.”
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23. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
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24. “Let’s build bridges, not walls.”
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25. “Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
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26. “Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”
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27. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
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28. “Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”
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29. “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
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30. “Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.”
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31. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”
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32. “Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great because greatness is determined by service.”
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33. “Be a thermostat, not a thermometer.”
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34. “Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”
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35. “There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”
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36. “No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
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37. “A right delayed is a right denied.”
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38. “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
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39. “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.”
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40. “People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”
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41. “It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.”
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42. “Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.”
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43. “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”
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44. “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
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45. “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”
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46. “Whatever your life’s work is, do it well.”
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47. “Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”
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48. “That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.”
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49. “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”
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50. “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
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51. “We shall overcome.”
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52. “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
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53. “Without justice, there can be no peace.”
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54. “I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the man I could be; I may not be the man I truly can be; but praise God, I’m not the man I once was.”
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55. “We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
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56. “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
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57. “We must use time creatively.”
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58. “He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.”
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59. “To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.”
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60. “Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
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61. “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
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62. “Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.”
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63. “Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”
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64. “We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.”
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65. “When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.”
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66. “Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”
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67. “If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.”
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68. “A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent.”
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69. “No one is free until we are all free.”
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70. “I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.”
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71. “If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.”
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72. “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there “is” such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.”
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73. “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
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74. “We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.”
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75. “We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.”
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76. “You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.”
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77. “Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.”
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78. “No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they would die for.”
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79. “You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream.”
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80. “The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.”
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81. “Life isn’t worth living until you have found something worth dying for.”
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82. “It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.”
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83. “As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation – either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”
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84. “If you’ve got nothing worth dying for, you’ve got nothing worth living for.”
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85. “True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”
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86. “Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent.”
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87. “If you can’t be a sun, be a star. For it isn’t by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.”
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88. “If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.”
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89. “Everyone can be great because everyone can serve.”
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90. “We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.”
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91. “Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.”
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92. “Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.”
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93. “Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.”
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94. “I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
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95. “Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever.”
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96. “Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half of the world.”
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97. “We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
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98. “We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.”
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99. “One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.”
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100. “The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”
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101. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.”
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102. “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
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103. “One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
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104. “The greatest purveyor of violence in the world: My own Government, I can not be Silent.”
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105. “Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.”
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106. “There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
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107. “We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”
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108. “Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”
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109. “A lie cannot live.”
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110. “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
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111. “What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.”
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112. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”
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113. “Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.”
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114. “An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”
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115. “Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!”
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116. “The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.”
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117. “But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.”
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118. “One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.”
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119. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
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120. “It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’clock on Sunday morning.”
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121. “Truth crushed to earth will rise again.”
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122. “We must have the faith that things will work out somehow, that God will make a way for us when there seems no way.”
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123. “Occasionally in life, there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.”
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124. “I’ve been to the Mountaintop.”
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125. “It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.”
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126. “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”
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127. “A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.”
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128. “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.”
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129. “Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.”
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130. “I just want to do God’s will.”
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131. “The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.”
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132. “The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.”
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133. “A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.”
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134. “The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open.”
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135. “It’s not the violence of the few that scares me, it’s the silence of the many.”
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136. “The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.”
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137. “Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
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138. “Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.”
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139. “But by all means, keep moving.”
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140. “In a real sense faith is total surrender to God .”
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141. “We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.”
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142. “If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That’s a new definition of greatness.”
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143. “Justice too long delayed is justice denied.”
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144. “The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.”
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145. “I have a dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, justice dreaming, dreaming of equality and hopefully no longer required to dream them.”
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146. “Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind’s quest for peace and security.”
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147. “Voting is the foundation stone for political action.”
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148. “Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.”
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149. “Unity has never meant uniformity.”
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150. “All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are inevitably our brother’s keeper because we are our brother’s brother. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.”
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151. “If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God’s children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.”
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152. “Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.”
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153. “Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.”
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154. “Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.”
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155. “The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”
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156. “Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life’s difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.”
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157. “We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.”
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158. “My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God’s hands.”
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159. “Seeing is not always believing.”
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160. “Whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward!”
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161. “The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.”
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162. “Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.”
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163. “Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
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164. “I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.”
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165. “It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.”
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166. “Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars…”
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167. “The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.”
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168. “Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.”
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169. “There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will.”
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170. “There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.”
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171. “I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.”
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172. “Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.”
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173. “Every person must stand up and be accountable, but be responsible for their actions.”
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174. “I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.”
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175. “This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.”
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176. “It’s not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.”
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177. “If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.”
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178. “Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.”
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179. “Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future.”
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180. “You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.”
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181. “If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.”
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182. “The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.”
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183. “People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.”
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184. “All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living and the dead of all nations have contributed. Whether we realize it or not, each of us lives eternally ‘in the red.’ We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women.”
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185. “Personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions.”
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186. “Our eternal message of hope is that dawn will come.”
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187. “Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.”
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188. “Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.”
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189. “Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.”
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190. “A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.”
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191. “Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.”
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192. “Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.”
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193. “Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the instruments of love.”
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194. “Power is the ability to achieve purpose.”
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195. “We all can’t be famous but we can all be great and we become great when we serve others.”
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196. “Friends are forever Boys are whatever.”
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197. “Was not Jesus an extremist in love? – “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you.””
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198. “History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”
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199. “Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.”
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200. “One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right if the head is totally wrong. Only through the bringing together of head and heart-intelligence and goodness-shall man rise to a fulfillment of his true nature.”
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