Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.
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So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others.
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Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.
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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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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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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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I've decided to stick with love.
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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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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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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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Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.
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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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Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.
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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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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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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
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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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Power is the ability to achieve purpose.
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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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The universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship (angels). Behind the harsh appearance of the world there is a benign power.
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A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for.
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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.