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

Grateful

“When we rise in the morning... at the table we drink coffee which is provided to us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African; before we leave for our jobs we are already beholden to more than half the world.”

Inspirational Jobs Morning

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

Spiritual

“the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship (angels). Behind the harsh appearance of the world there is a benign power.”

Men Struggle Angel

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Love

“[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems.”

Love Is Problem Answers

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Love

“Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.”

Love Expression

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Determined

“You have to keep moving forward”

Moving Moving Forward

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Love

“Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.”

Feelings Generosity First Love

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Sad

“There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.”

Life Individual Health

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Sad

“Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.”

Inspirational Problem Violence

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Grieving

“I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.”

Creative Wind Cells

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Courageous

“It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action.”

People Moving Direct Action

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Angry

“There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. [...] For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does.”

Thinking Hate Love You

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Wise

“Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.”

Men Science Wise

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