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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and... when they fail to do this purpose they become dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
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Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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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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One who breaks an unjust 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 law.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
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Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
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Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul. |
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Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
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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. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Seeing is not always believing.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
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The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
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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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The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
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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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The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
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The question is not whether we will be extremist but what kind of extremist will we be.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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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.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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The time is always right to do what is 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 at times of challenge and controversy.
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The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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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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To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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