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Martin Luther King Jr

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
— Martin Luther King Jr hope
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
— Martin Luther King Jr love
If a man hasnt discovered something that he will die for, he isnt fit to live.
— Martin Luther King Jr man
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.
— Martin Luther King Jr evil
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
— Martin Luther King Jr freedom
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
— Martin Luther King Jr fear
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
— Martin Luther King Jr love
We may have all come on different ships, but were in the same boat now.
— Martin Luther King Jr different
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
— Martin Luther King Jr world
God is not merely interested in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
— Martin Luther King Jr god
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
— Martin Luther King Jr reality
Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.
— Martin Luther King Jr love
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
— Martin Luther King Jr justice
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
— Martin Luther King Jr men
The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.
— Martin Luther King Jr violence
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
— Martin Luther King Jr history
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
— Martin Luther King Jr self
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
— Martin Luther King Jr children
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
— Martin Luther King Jr time
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
— Martin Luther King Jr pain
I submit to you that if a man hasnt discovered something that he will die for, he isnt fit to live.
— Martin Luther King Jr man
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
— Martin Luther King Jr passion
We must learn to live together as brothers or we are going to perish together as fools.
— Martin Luther King Jr live
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
— Martin Luther King Jr work
I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a mans skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality.
— Martin Luther King Jr war
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
— Martin Luther King Jr time
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,but the silence of our friends.
— Martin Luther King Jr words
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
— Martin Luther King Jr poetry
Learn a little about your past, and you may end up with a pretty nice future
— Martin Luther King Jr future
The time is always right to do what is right.
— Martin Luther King Jr time
Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.
— Martin Luther King Jr love
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
— Martin Luther King Jr love
Your life begins to end the moment you start being silent about the things that matter.
— Martin Luther King Jr life
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
— Martin Luther King Jr leader
Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education.
— Martin Luther King Jr education
A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
— Martin Luther King Jr death
If you cant fly then run, if you cant run then walk, if you ant walk then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.
— Martin Luther King Jr war
God has set the type of marriage everywhere throughout the creation. Every creature seeks its perfection in another. The very heavens and earth picture it to us.
— Martin Luther King Jr god
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
— Martin Luther King Jr freedom
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
— Martin Luther King Jr responsibility
Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies...for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just and God is with us.
— Martin Luther King Jr love
At the center of nonviolence stands the principle of love.
— Martin Luther King Jr love
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
— Martin Luther King Jr science
It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
— Martin Luther King Jr god
You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.
— Martin Luther King Jr you
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man cant ride you unless your back is bent.
— Martin Luther King Jr freedom
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
— Martin Luther King Jr lies
The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.
— Martin Luther King Jr best
We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.
— Martin Luther King Jr art
There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
— Martin Luther King Jr time
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
— Martin Luther King Jr happiness
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what theyd die for.
— Martin Luther King Jr live
Take the first step in faith. You dont have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
— Martin Luther King Jr faith
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
— Martin Luther King Jr live
Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.
— Martin Luther King Jr love
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
— Martin Luther King Jr love
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
— Martin Luther King Jr wisdom
A man who wont die for something is not fit to live.
— Martin Luther King Jr man
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
— Martin Luther King Jr man
Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.
— Martin Luther King Jr personality
Faith is taking the first step even when you dont see the whole staircase.
— Martin Luther King Jr faith
We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter.God is our eternal fallout shelter.
— Martin Luther King Jr god
Morality cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
— Martin Luther King Jr art
I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.
— Martin Luther King Jr death
Take the first step in faith. You dont have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.
— Martin Luther King Jr faith
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
— Martin Luther King Jr death
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society...shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
— Martin Luther King Jr war
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
— Martin Luther King Jr war
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral; returning violence with violence only multiplies voilence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
— Martin Luther King Jr lies
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
— Martin Luther King Jr life

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