Quotations/Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

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A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that

the white American is even more unprepared.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.

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A lie cannot live.

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A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

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A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., speech, Detroit, Michigan, June 23, 1963

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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching

spiritual death.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.

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A right delayed is a right denied.

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A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

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A riot is the language of the unheard.

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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

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All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr. 'Strength to Love,' 1963

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Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

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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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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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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

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Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having your legs cut off, and then being condemned for being a cripple. It means seeing your mother and father spiritually murdered by the slings and arrows of daily exploitation, and then being hated for being an orphan.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.

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Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

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Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil -- hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength To Love, 1963.

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Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., speech, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, August 16, 1967.

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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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Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love

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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength To Love, 1963.

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Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

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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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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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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

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I am aware that there are many who wince at a distinction between property and persons--who hold both sacrosanct. My views are not so rigid. A life is sacred. Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on; it is not man.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1967.

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I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

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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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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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I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

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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.

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

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I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr. Speech in Memphis, April 3, 1968, the day before King was assassinated

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

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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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I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

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I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

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I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

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If a man is called to be 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.

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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.

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If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr. ., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963

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It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

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It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown from the head of some philosophical Zeus. It was born from the wounds of despair and disappointment. It is a cry of daily hurt and persistent pain.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.

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It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., Wall Street Journal, November 13, 1962.

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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must ever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.

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Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

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Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?

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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

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Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., The Measures of Man, 1959.

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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

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Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait, 1963.

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Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten....America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness--justice.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.

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Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

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Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

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Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, Sweden, December 11, 1964

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Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

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Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait, 1964.

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

Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

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

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Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. 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.'

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King Jr., Speech at Civil Rights March on Washington, August 28, 1963

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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.

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

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One who breaks an unjust 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 law.

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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

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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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Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

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Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.

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Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

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Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

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Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

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Seeing is not always believing.

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Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

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Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor in America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1967.

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Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963.

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Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

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

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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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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

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The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.

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The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must

be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an

irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963.

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The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 1963

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The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of

civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant

animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.

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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?"

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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

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The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King Jr., 'Strength to Love,' 1963

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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

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The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1967.

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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 men.

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The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

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The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms of

freedom and justice. But the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the

same thing as to ordain brotherhood.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.

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The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

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The question is not whether 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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The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

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The time is always right to do what is right.

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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.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

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

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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

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To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

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To be a Negro in America is to hope against hope.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.

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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

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We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobile rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

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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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We have guided missiles and misguided men.

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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

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We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

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We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

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We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

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We must use time creatively.

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We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

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We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

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We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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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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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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When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law in the ghettos. Day in

and day out he violates welfare laws to deprive the poor of their meager allotments; he flagrantly violates building codes and

regulations; his police make a mockery of law; he violates laws on equal employment and education and the provisions of civil

services. The slums are the handiwork of a vicious system of the white society; Negroes live in them, but they do not make

them, any more than a prisoner makes a prison.

Quotations/Quotes:- Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1967.

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When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

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