Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

"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."
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"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."
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"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
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"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."
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"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict."
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"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."
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"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."
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"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
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"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
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"Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world."
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"I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land."
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"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good."
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"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
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"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."
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"The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
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"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."
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"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."
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"We must use time creatively."
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"That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing."
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"There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November."
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"Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control."
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