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

Hopeful

“When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life -- trust, love, mercy, and altruism -- then we shall know that the kingdom of God is here.”

Jesus Principles Kingdoms

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

Wise

“Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts, religion deals with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.”

Men Two Fall

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Hopeful

“We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn.”

Hope Dawn Midnight

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Spiritual

“Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.”

Night Effort

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Love

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.”

Hate Love Life

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Regretful

“A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.”

Past America Justice

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Love

“Returning hate, adding deeper darkness to a night that is already void of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

Hate Stars Loss

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Hopeful

“We must have the faith that things will work out somehow, that God will make a way for us when there seems no way.”

Way Work Out Spirituality

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Philosophical

“We are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one.”

Sleep Perspective Environmental

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Regretful

“In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a Christian must also be a a nonconformist. Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave.”

Men Christian Spiritual

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Courageous

“Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored... I am not afraid of the word tension. I have earnestly worked and preached against violent tension, and there is a type of constructive tension that is necessary for growth.”

Issues Creative Direct Action

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Courageous

“Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.”

Men Flesh Fellow Man

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