Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

Courageous

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

Evil Acceptance Historical

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

Sad

“Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.”

Community Hatred Brotherhood

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Wise

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”

Character School

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Courageous

“What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?”

Struggle Hamburgers

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Peaceful

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”

Life Kings Peace

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Courageous

“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”

Fear Encouragement

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Angry

“An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.”

Inspirational Eye

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Courageous

“There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.”

People Want Nothing To Lose

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Courageous

“We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.”

Choices Community Peace

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Hopeful

“It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.”

War Love Peace

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Regretful

“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.”

People Poverty Distribution Of Wealth

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Spiritual

“By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth, is essential if we are to be transformed nonconformists . . . Only through an inner spiritual transformation do we gain the strength to fight vigorously the evils of the world in a humble and loving spirit.”

Christian Spiritual Jesus

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