Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes — Page 30

Civil Rights Leader

Courageous

“There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of soft mindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce soft minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.”

Men Spiritual Ignorance

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

Philosophical

“It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively. I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.”

People Time Ill Will

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Creative

“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”

Lying Business

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Courageous

“When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.”

Men Evil

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Courageous

“When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law in the ghettos. Day in and day out he violates welfare laws to deprive the poor of their meager allotments; he flagrantly violates building codes and regulations; his police make a mockery of law; he violates laws on equal employment and education and the provisions of civil services. The slums are the handiwork of a vicious system of the white society; Negroes live in them, but they do not make them, any more than a prisoner makes a prison.”

Men White Ghetto

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Ambitious

“We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.”

Political Politics Society

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Courageous

“Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.”

Creating Victory

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Wise

“Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.”

Real Education Fiction

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Courageous

“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”

People Kings Change

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Courageous

“There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.”

Men Peace

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Courageous

“A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions....A ny religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.”

Men Soul Dust

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Regretful

“The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.”

Men Ambition Selfish

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