Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
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Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better.
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The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.
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The body is God's temple, but we are to worship God, not the temple.
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I think a revolution can survive without single centralized leadership.
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One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right if the head is totally wrong. Only through the bringing together of head and heart-intelligence and goodness-shall man rise to a fulfillment of his true nature.
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Love is a usually force able of transforming an rivalry into friend.
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We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.
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The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.
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America, you must be born again!
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The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
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When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.
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Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives.
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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
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It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.
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We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is not over- only the present conflict has ceased. There will be no peace as long as we react to violence with violence.
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Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.
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Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.
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I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, "Martin, Martin, come quickly!" I put down my cup and ran toward the living room. As I approached the front window Coretta pointed joyfully to a slowly moving bus: "Darling, it's empty!
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It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively. I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
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We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout the developing world, a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.
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For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.
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Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.
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Violence multiplies violence.