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Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes(https://friendstamilchat.in/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F8%2F84%2FMartin_Luther_King_Jr_NYWTS.jpg%2F220px-Martin_Luther_King_Jr_NYWTS.jpg&hash=34b97972742d8a87f11b906149a7e2cd4d8869a7)
An American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement. He is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. King is often presented as a heroic leader in the history of modern American liberalism.
Here are some famous quotes by Martin Luther King Jr.
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A lie cannot live.
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I just want to do God's will.
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A right delayed is a right denied.
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Riots are the voices of the unheard.
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A riot is the language of the unheard.
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Don't hate it's too big a burden to bear.
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Without love benevolence becomes egotism.
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The time is always right to do what is right.
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Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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I want to be the white man's brother not his brother-in-law.
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Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is a permanent attitude.
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We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
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We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hope.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
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Life's most persistent and urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?'
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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for he isn't fit to live.
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
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In the End we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces I would still plant my apple tree.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase just take the first step.
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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life devoid of breadth.
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
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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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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 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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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
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Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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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.
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The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
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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.
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We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
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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.
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We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
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Injustice must be exposed with all the tension its exposure creates to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.
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It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
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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.
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Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history which cuts without wounding and enobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
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The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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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.
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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.
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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
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Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty racism and militarism.
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Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.
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It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
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Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
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Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
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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.
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From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
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Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Therefore agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.
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Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us the opposition we now face will surely fail.
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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 host of heaven and earth will pause to say here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
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If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er 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 to say here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
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Cowardice asks the question 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question 'Is it popular?' But conscience asks the question 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.
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Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.