Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers .

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

  

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• I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.

  

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• I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.

  

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• We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers .

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Philosophy
  • Way Of Life
  • Murdered