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There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.
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The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.
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Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.
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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.
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I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.
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Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future.
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It's not how long you live, it's how well you live.
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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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The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter.
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Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.
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There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.
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A second thing that an individual must do in seeking to love his enemy is to discover the element of good in his enemy, and everytime you begin to hate that person and think of hating that person, realize that there is some good there and look at those good points which will over – balance the bad points.
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Within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals.
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Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.
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Lord help me to see M. L. King as M. L. King in his true perspective.
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The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms of freedom and justice. But the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.
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I think there can be a collective leadership. Maybe some symbolize the struggle [for human's rights] a little more than others, but I think it's absolutely necessary for the leadership to be united in order to make the revolution effective.
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Be sure to play "Blessed Lord" tonight - play it real pretty.
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Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.
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It is Love that will save our world and our civilization.
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It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life.
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Violence is not the way.
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Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.
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We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine.
Martin Luther King, Jr.