Martin Luther King, Jr.
Quotations
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“Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.” -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.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“We must use time creatively.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“We have guided missiles and misguided men.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.” -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.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” -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.” -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.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.” -Martin…
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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.
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