Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
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The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people.
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Make no mistake about those who call themselves anti Zionist are anti Semitic.
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Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.
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I've decided to stick with love.
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I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.
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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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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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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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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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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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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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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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When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up & express their anger & frustration if you refuse to hear their cries. A riot is the language of the unheard.
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I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.
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We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.
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Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.
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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
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Power is the ability to achieve purpose.
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A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for.
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Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.
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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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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 meet the forces of hate with the power of love.