Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes — Page 11

Civil Rights Leader

Courageous

“The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.”

Country Mind Our Society

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

Angry

“The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: "A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.”

Night Betrayal Agony

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Angry

“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

Light Hate Kings

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Sad

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”

Inspirational Kings Health

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Courageous

“Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.”

Light Injustice Corruption

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Philosophical

“Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites --- polar opposites --- so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”

Love Is Justice Opposites

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Hopeful

“If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.”

Dream Inspiring Moving On

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Angry

“Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.”

Expression Punishment Death Penalty

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Courageous

“The time has come for an all-out war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed. Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for "the least of these".”

War School Doe

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Courageous

“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.”

Heart Creativity Creative

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Courageous

“We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.”

America Taken Giving Up

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Hopeful

“You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.”

Dream Dreamer

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