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Martin Luther King Jr Quotes

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Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) Even though I have never had an abrupt conversion experience, religion has been real to me and closely knitted to life. In fact the two cannot be separated; religion for me is life  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) I am thankful, however, that some of our white brothers have grasped the meaning of this social revolution and committed themselves to it. They are still all too small in quantity, but they are big in quality  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother’s keeper  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) We must work passionately and unrelentingly for the goal of freedom, but we must be sure that our hands are clean in the struggle. We must never struggle with falsehood, hate, or malice. We must never become bitter  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it’s nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) We all can’t be famous but we can all be great and we become great when we serve others  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) I won’t have any money to leave behind. I won’t have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) If you haven’t found something worth dying for, you’re not fit to live  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes) If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth... we can’t have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty  (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
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