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

“This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy - a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.”

Dream Opportunity Respect

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

Courageous

“Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.”

Obstacles Surrender Submissive

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Grateful

“The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.”

Life Important Time

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Sad

“We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.”

Men World

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Philosophical

“Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.”

Faith Angel

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Hopeful

“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”

Life Greatness Diversity

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Courageous

“The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.”

Age Poverty Curse

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Creative

“Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as the white keys.”

Life Beautiful Sisterhood

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Spiritual

“We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.”

Superstitions

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Optimistic

“This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of pride, hatred, and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; and men do reverence before false gods of nationalism and materialism. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.”

Men Passion Pride

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Hopeful

“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.”

Dream Kings Son

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Hopeful

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

Love Peace Being Strong

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