All Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
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Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
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We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
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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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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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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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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.
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