Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.
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The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing.
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Love is a usually force able of transforming an rivalry into friend.
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There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro of America is saying he's determined to be free and he is militant enough to stand up.
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I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction... I believe that even amid today's mortar bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow... I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed.
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We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.
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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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I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land.
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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 .
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Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.
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From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action.
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It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.
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Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.
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Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.
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The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.
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Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
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If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.
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The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.
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We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.
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Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.
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I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be.
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Today, is a great day to make a difference for someone. 'I have a dream'.
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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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Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.