Martin Luther King Jr Quotes
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I have a dream that one day in Alabama little black boys and black girls will join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
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Sooner or later, all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together.
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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
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I have a dream today!
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When the history books are written, someone will say there lived black people who had the courage to stand up for their rights.
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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.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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The Gandhian philosophy of nonviolence, is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
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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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I have a dream.
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Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.
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The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community, while the aftermath of violence is tragic bitterness.
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The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic.
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Life at it’s best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.
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In the end, for laws to be obeyed, men must believe they are right.
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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 in times of challenge and controversy.
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Give us the ballot and we will write the proper laws on the books.
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I have conquered the fear of death.
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I don’t want a long funeral.
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I may be crucified for my beliefs, and if I am, you can say, ‘He died to make men free.’
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Christ gave us the goals, and Mahatma Gandhi provided the tactics.
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Real weeds disrupt the orderly growth of stately wheat.
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We’ve come here to our nation’s capital to cash a check.
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It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds.’
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We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so we’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
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Nonviolence is ultimately a way of life that men live by because of the sheer morality of its claim.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided man.
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The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tide of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued that self-defeating path of hate. Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world.
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First and foremost, we are American citizens… We are not advocating violence… The only weapon that we have… is the weapon of protest… The great glory of American democracy is the right to protest for right.
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I could never get out of my mind the economic insecurity of many of my playmates and the tragic poverty of those living around me.
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I would end up having to go to the back of that bus with my body, but every time I got on that bus I left my mind up on the front seat. And I said to myself, ‘One of these days, I’m going to put my body up there where my mind is.’
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You just wait and see. When I grow up I’m going to get me some big words.
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The tough-minded person always examines the facts before he reaches conclusions; in short he post judges. The tender-minded person reaches a conclusion before he has examined the first fact; in short, he prejudges and is prejudiced.
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Race prejudice is based on groundless fears, suspicions, and misunderstanding.
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One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right if the head is totally wrong.
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Who are we? We are the descendants of slaves… we are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.
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We are not makers of history; we are made by history.
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Since the institution of slavery was so important to the economic development of America, it had a profound impact in shaping the social-political-legal structure of the nation. Land and slaves were the chief forms of private property. In the service of this system, human beings were reduced to propertyless property.
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