Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes — Page 21

Civil Rights Leader

Love

“Don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have the compassion and understanding for those who hate us. We must realize so many people are taught to hate us that they are not totally responsible for their hate. But we stand in life at midnight; we are always on the threshold of a new dawn.”

People Hate Compassion

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

Determined

“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.”

Struggle Change Work

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Courageous

“If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.”

Inspirational Peace Inspiring

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Hopeful

“The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.”

Progress Movement Despair

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Courageous

“Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide.”

Past Exercise Suicide

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Courageous

“There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid or day laborer”

Vision Citizens Adequate

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Love

“Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites; hate tears down and destroys. The aftermath of the ‘fight with fire’ method...is bitterness and chaos, the aftermath of the love method is reconciliation and creation of the beloved community...Yes , love-which means understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill, even for one’s enemies-is the solution”

Mean Fighting Hate

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Courageous

“My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there is a world of difference. Gandhi resisted evil with as much vigor and power as the violent resister, but True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to evil power. It is rather a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love. . . .”

Two Love Courage

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Courageous

“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.”

Inspiring Change Strength

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Courageous

“This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.”

Drug Luxury I Have A Dream Speech

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Courageous

“Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.”

Evil Agitation Rising Up

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Courageous

“Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.”

Motivational Leadership Inspiring

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