Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living.
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I hate it when people quote me on the internet, claiming I said things that I never actually said.
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The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.
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History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.
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Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.
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Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever.
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We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.
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I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
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Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.
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Wherever schools can be integrated through the busing method, and where it won't be just a, a terrible inconvenience, I think it ought to be done.
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I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence.
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Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.
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The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.
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It’s wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong! It’s wrong in America, it’s wrong in Germany, it’s wrong in Russia, it’s wrong in China! It was wrong in two thousand B.C., and it’s wrong in nineteen fifty-four A.D.! It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong!
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Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.
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The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.
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Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.
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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
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I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.
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We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we will not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace.
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Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called jazz, there is a stepping-stone to all of these.
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The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.
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It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the ligitimate goals of his life.