Martin Luther King Jr. quotes - page 18

Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong. View quote
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Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist. View quote
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Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris. View quote
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What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness? View quote
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Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. View quote
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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. View quote
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We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. View quote
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The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. View quote
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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. View quote
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The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
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. View quote
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Seeing is not always believing. View quote
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We must use time creatively and forever realize that the time is always to hope to do great things. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. View quote
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I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. View quote
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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 can't ride you unless your back is bent. View quote
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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. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression andviolence without resorting to oppression and violence. View quote
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It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. View quote
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We have guided missiles and misguided men. View quote
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I have a dream... View quote
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