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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
US black civil rights leader & clergyman [more author details]

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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.: Martin Luther King Jr.
All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.: Martin Luther King Jr.
Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.: Martin Luther King Jr.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.: Martin Luther King Jr.
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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.: Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
I submit that an individual who breaks a 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 the law.: Martin Luther King Jr.
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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.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.: Martin Luther King Jr.
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.: Martin Luther King Jr.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.: Martin Luther King Jr.
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.: Martin Luther King Jr.
Man 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.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.: Martin Luther King Jr.
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Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.: Martin Luther King Jr.
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.: Martin Luther King Jr.
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.: Martin Luther King Jr.
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.: Martin Luther King Jr.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.: Martin Luther King Jr.
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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.: Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love"

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