Martin Luther King Jr.
"Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it."
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"Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for he isn't fit to live."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hope."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"I suggested then that the prize was not given merely as recognition of past achievement, but also as recognition, a more profound recognition, that the nonviolent way, the American Negro's way, was the answer to the crucial political and moral question of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win, and their participants know it."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"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."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that thereare some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they areworth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, thatperson isn't fit to live!"
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Our only hope lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism"
Martin Luther King Jr.
"If a man hasn’t found something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others."
Martin Luther King Jr.
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