Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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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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Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
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Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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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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Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
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Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.
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Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.
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All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
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Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.
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It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
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I've decided to stick with love.
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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
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If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.
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If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.
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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 doom.
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Segregation...not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually...It scars the soul...It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying 'You are less than...''You are not equal to...'
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.
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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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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 may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
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It's not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.