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

Creative

“And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality.”

Reality Morning Quality

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

Hopeful

“There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is created in our lifetime, it will be done by rejecting the racism, materialism, and violence that has characterized Western civilization and especially by working toward a world of brotherhood, cooperation, and peace.”

Men Civilization Racism

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Hopeful

“I just want to do God’s will.”

Want God's Will

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Angry

“Nothing pains some people more than having to think”

Thinking Pain

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Philosophical

“Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.”

Jesus Realist

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Angry

“You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.”

People Inspirational Disrespect

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Confident

“I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one...should be a deep belief in your own dignity. Your worth and your own somebodiness... Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.”

Want Numbers Belief

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Determined

“If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.”

Life Fall Raphael

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Sad

“All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.”

Decision Faces Progress

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Sad

“As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.”

Inspirational Broken Promise

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Melancholic

“How hard it is for people to live without someone to look down upon-really to look down upon. It is not just that they feel cheated out of someone to hate. It is that they are compelled to look more closely into themselves and what they don't like about themselves.”

People Looks Hate

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Love

“Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.”

Love Justice Power

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