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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 man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
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A man who won't die for something is not fit to 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 at bottom the language of the unheard.
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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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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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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.
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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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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 down together at the table of brotherhood.
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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.
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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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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.
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I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to
go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised
Land.
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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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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.
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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.
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I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
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I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
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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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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.
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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing
justice, and... when they fail to do this purpose they become
dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
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Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
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Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
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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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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.
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Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
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Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which
cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword
that heals.
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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.
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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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.
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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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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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Seeing is not always believing.
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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
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Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
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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.
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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?"
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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.
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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
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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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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.
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The means by which we live have outdistanced the
ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual
power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
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The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
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The question is not whether we will be extremist but what kind of extremist will we be.
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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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The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate
discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of
freedom and equality.
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The time is always right to do what is right.
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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.
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The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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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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To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
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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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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.
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
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We must use time creatively.
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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.
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We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not
the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden
tension that is already alive.
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We will have to repent in this generation not merely
for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the
appalling silence of the good people.
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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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We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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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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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.
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When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
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