All Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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 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.
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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.
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Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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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.
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We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
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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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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.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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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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The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
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