| Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. |
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- Martin Luther, Jr. King |
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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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- Martin Luther, Jr. King |
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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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- Martin Luther, Jr. King |
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| Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. |
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- Martin Luther, Jr. King |
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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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- Martin Luther, Jr. King |
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| 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 your verb agree to serve.... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. |
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- Martin Luther, Jr. King |
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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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- Martin Luther, Jr. King |
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| Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. |
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- Martin Luther, Jr. King |
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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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- Martin Luther, Jr. King |
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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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- Martin Luther, Jr. King |
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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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- Martin Luther, Jr. King |
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| 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. |
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- Martin Luther, Jr. King |
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| Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. 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.' |
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- Martin Luther, Jr. King |
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| If a man is called 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. |
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- Martin Luther, Jr. King |
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| We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. |
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- Martin Luther, Jr. King |
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| Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves. |
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- Martin Luther, Jr. King |
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| Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime. |
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- Martin Luther, Jr. King |
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| We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." |
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- Martin Luther, Jr. King |
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| We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. |
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- Martin Luther, Jr. King |
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| Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. |
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- Martin Luther, Jr. King |
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