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

Courageous

“Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.”

Powerful Passivity Is Social Transformation

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

Angry

“The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.”

Attitude Pay Majority

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Philosophical

“The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.”

Mean Ends Inspirational Life

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Happy

“The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”

Way Joy Happiness

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Hopeful

“Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.”

Despair Valleys

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Wise

“A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.”

Men Inspirational Squares

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Courageous

“The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.”

Religious Academic Nonconformist

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Philosophical

“The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." 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.”

Song Ocean Revenge

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Creative

“The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.”

Art Gratitude Acceptance

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Hopeful

“And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

Children Spiritual God

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Grateful

“We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.”

Careers Wisdom Success

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Melancholic

“Segregation...not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually...It scars the soul...It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying 'You are less than...''You are not equal to...'”

Soul Faces Forever

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