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(977 votes) I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation when they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(1001 votes) We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(946 votes) 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.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(909 votes) Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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(827 votes) We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(825 votes) I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(791 votes) Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(785 votes) I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(755 votes) We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(745 votes) I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(702 votes) 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.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(688 votes) Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(619 votes) At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(594 votes) 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.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(592 votes) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(572 votes) The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(561 votes) We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(561 votes) When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, ''Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!''

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(552 votes) I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(551 votes) I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal…

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(549 votes) If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(544 votes) He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(536 votes) It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: ''We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer.''

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(536 votes) Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(535 votes) 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.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(535 votes) All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(533 votes) I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(530 votes) Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(530 votes) 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.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(530 votes) 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.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(528 votes) We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(527 votes) 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.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(525 votes) 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.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(525 votes) Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(522 votes) Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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(519 votes) If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(516 votes) No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(512 votes) There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(511 votes) Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(511 votes) 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.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(510 votes) The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(508 votes) The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(506 votes) Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(506 votes) The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(500 votes) The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(498 votes) 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.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(494 votes) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(494 votes) Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(493 votes) There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(473 votes) When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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