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Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes
Martin Luther King Jr.
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American
Leader
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
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A lie cannot live.
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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
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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.
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A right delayed is a right denied.
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A riot is the language of the unheard.
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
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All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
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Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
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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.
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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 the law.
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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
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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.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Profile
Born:
January 15, 1929
Died:
1968
Profession:
Leader
Country:
United States
Nationality:
American
Zodiac Sign:
Capricorn
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