Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

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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Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

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Life You Doing Others Question Most Persistent Urgent

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

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May Boat Now Same Come Different Ships

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

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Love Great Hate Burden Bear Decided Stick Too Love-Hate

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

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Learning Together Live Must Fools Brothers Learn Perish

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

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Faith You Step First Step Even First See Staircase Taking Whole

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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Character People Day Look Color Content Judged Skin Will

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

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Hope Never Disappointment Lose Must Accept Finite Infinite

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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Silence Words Remember Will End Enemies Friends In The End Memorial Day Our

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

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History Made Makers

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

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Life Quality Important Longevity

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

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Death Man Die Will Live Discovered Fit He Something

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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Man Who Sword Powerful Cuts Heals Just Nonviolence Weapon Which Without Wounding

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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Life Work Man Better Could Dead His Job Living Should Unborn Well Whatever Your

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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Education Character Intelligence True Critically Function Goal Plus Teach Think True Education

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.

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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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Justice Injustice Everywhere Threat Anywhere

Seeing is not always believing.

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Always Seeing Believing

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

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Work Humanity Excellence Dignity Importance Labor Painstaking Should Undertaken

We must use time creatively.

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Time Must Use Creatively

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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You Never Reality Whatever Affects Directly Indirectly Interrelated Ought Structure Until I Can

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

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Freedom Never Oppressor Must Given Demanded Oppressed Voluntarily

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

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World Stupidity Ignorance Nothing All The World Conscientious Dangerous More Sincere Than

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.

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Man Justice True Stand Dies He Refuses Right Stand Up Take Up Which

A lie cannot live.

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Lie Live Cannot

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

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Life Nothing Down More Bogged Breadth Devoid Find Individual Length Than Tragic

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

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Man Brother White Brother-In-Law His Want

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

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Good People Will Misunderstanding Absolute Frustrating Ill More Shallow Than Understanding

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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World Will Nation Question Creative Dire Extremists Kind Need Whether

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

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Love Disappointment Deep Where Deep Love

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

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Science Power Men Spiritual Our Guided Misguided Missiles Outrun Scientific Spiritual Power

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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Man Challenge Comfort He Controversy Convenience Measure Measure Of A Man Moments Stands Times Ultimate Where

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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Legal Never Never Forget Forget Did Everything Germany

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

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Peace Seek Goal Which Arrive Distant Means Merely

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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War Great Society Down Battlefield Casualties Great Society Greatest Shot Vietnam

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