Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him.
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Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.
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Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.
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The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.
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I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for "the brotherhood of man".
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I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.
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A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them and make them things. And therefore, they will exploit them and poor people generally economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and it will have to use its military might to protect them. All of these problems are tied together. What I'm saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, "America, you must be born again!"
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Be true to what you said on paper.
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One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.
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One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.
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One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.
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We all can't be famous but we can all be great and we become great when we serve others.
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Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's often vocal sanction of things as they are.
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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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The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.
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It's not how long you live, it's how well you live.
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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.
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And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
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At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother.
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Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. In any cause that concerns the progress of mankind, put your faith in the nonconformist!