Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes — Page 33

Civil Rights Leader

Motivated

“Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.”

Moving Powerful Determination

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

Philosophical

“In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.”

Revenge Forgiveness Anger

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Peaceful

“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”

Mean War Peace

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Love

“The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation.”

Winning Understanding Aftermath

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Spiritual

“If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.”

Reality Spiritual African American

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Angry

“The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.”

Faces Wings Revolution

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Grateful

“If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness.”

Important Greatness Definitions

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Hopeful

“If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.”

America Destiny Freedom

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Philosophical

“I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends up creating many more problems for the negro community than it solved. We can through violence burn down a building, but you can't establish justice. You can murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder through violence. You can murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. And what we're trying to get rid of is hate, injustice, and all of these other things that continue the long night of man's inhumanity to man.”

Men Hate Night

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Wise

“Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.”

Action True Power Sophistry

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Courageous

“If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.”

Children Doe America

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Sad

“A right delayed is a right denied.”

Inspirational Rights Rejection

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