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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Brainy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
- First Step
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
- Nov 07, 2020
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Devoid
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Injustice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Believing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seeing is not always believing.
- Excellence
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- Nov 07, 2020
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must use time creatively.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.
- Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
- Cripple
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lie cannot live.
- Devoid
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
- Misunderstanding
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And 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 is right.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Deplorable
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
A riot is the language of the unheard.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Conditional Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Arouse
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- Nov 07, 2020
I submit that an individual who breaks a 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.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Injustice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
- Denied
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- Nov 07, 2020
A right delayed is a right denied.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Guilt
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Alive
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- Nov 07, 2020
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
- Chisel
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
- Pure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
- Nov 07, 2020
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
- Confines
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020