Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes — Page 42

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

Courageous

“You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.”

Feet Tired Iron

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

Confident

“President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt to be historic, the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.... The bill that lay on the polished mahogany desk was born in violence in Selma, Alabama, where a stubborn sheriff... had stumbled against the future.”

Rights President Voting

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Courageous

“Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.”

Surrender Cowardice

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Courageous

“Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.”

Kings Truth

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Optimistic

“In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by.”

Revolution Retreat Civil Rights

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Courageous

“Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor in America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours.”

Children War Brother

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Philosophical

“Your truth will increase as you know listen to the truth of others”

Knows Increase

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Courageous

“One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.”

Evil Wisdom

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Optimistic

“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.”

Life Is Destiny Tired

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Courageous

“If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.”

Real Achieve Socialism

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Love

“Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love.”

Men Hate Cutting

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Creative

“A second thing that an individual must do in seeking to love his enemy is to discover the element of good in his enemy, and everytime you begin to hate that person and think of hating that person, realize that there is some good there and look at those good points which will over-balance the bad points.”

Thinking Hate Enemy

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