Martin Luther King Jr.
"βNo one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.β"
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"βNo one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.β"
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Let no man pull you so low as to hate him."
Martin Luther King Jr.
A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words βToo Lateβ."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Martin Luther King Jr.
I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
Martin Luther King Jr.
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
"Admitting the weighty problems and staggering disappointments, Christianity affirms that God is able to give us the power to meet them. He is able to give us inner equilibrium to stand tall amid the trials and burdens of life. He is able to provide inner peace amid our outer storms."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"βI have decided to stick to love... Hate is too great a burden to bear.β"
Martin Luther King Jr.
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
"It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Only a "dry as dust" religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the social conditions that cause men an Earthly hell."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The Cross is the eternal expression of the length to which God will go to in order to restore broken community."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems..."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"In the end, what will hurt us the most is not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Itβs all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"When religion becomes so involved in a future good "over yonder" that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals."
Martin Luther King Jr.
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