All Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
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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.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
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Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
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The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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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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Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
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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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