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"60 Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 15 January 1929. Died: 4 April 1968 | Leader |
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.
Think Intensively Critically Education
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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Shallow Frustrating Absolute Understanding
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Love Force Friend Transforming
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

History Makers Made
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.

Science Investigates Religion Interprets
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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.

Human Progress Automatic Inevitable
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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.

Creative Darkness Man Destructive
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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.

Dream Judged Children Nation
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We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.

Time Creatively Knowledge Ripe
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Deep Disappointment Love Where
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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.

Forgive Love Capacity Maintain
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If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Fly Run Crawl Moving
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Darkness Drive Hate Light
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The time is always right to do what is right.

Always Right Time
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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.

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

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

Doing Life Most Others
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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

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

Faith First Staircase Step
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Brothers Fools Learn Live
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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.

Character Color Content Day
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

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

End Enemies Friends Our
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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.

Cuts Heals Sword Man
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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.

Bent Change Continuous Freedom
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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.

Bad Good Greatest History
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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.

Better Dead Job Life
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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.

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

Die Discovered Fit Live
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The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
Important Life Longevity Quality
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Dignity Excellence Humanity Importance
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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.

Affects Directly Ought Reality
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Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Awaiting Burial Concerned Conditions
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There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Being Chill Time Glittering
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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.

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

Bogged Breadth Devoid Down
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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.

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

Arrive Distant Goal Means
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Demanded Freedom Given Never
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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.

Creative Dire Extremists Kind
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If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Angry Blood Compose Wish
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Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Vanity Conscience Cowardice Expediency
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Conscientious Dangerous Ignorance More
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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.

Battlefield Casualties Down Great
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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.

Futility Hence Invites Involves
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Guided Men Misguided Missiles
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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?'

First Good Happen Help
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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.

Challenge Comfort Controversy Convenience
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The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
Bends Elbow Justice Moral
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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.

Important Keep Law Love
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes & Sayings