Martin Luther King Jr. quotes - page 3

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. View quote
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We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way. View quote
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. View quote
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If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live. View quote
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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. View quote
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history. View quote
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Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself. View quote
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You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time, my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November. View quote
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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. View quote
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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. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. View quote
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. View quote
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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. View quote
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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. View quote
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A lie cannot live. View quote
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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. View quote
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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. View quote
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There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because it's right. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
A right delayed is a right denied. View quote
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act it is a permanent attitude. View quote
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Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. View quote
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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. View quote
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