Martin Luther King
was an American civil rights leader -
he lived between 1929 and 1968.
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Martin Luther King Quotes
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I have a dream that
one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the
sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table
of brotherhood... I have a dream that my four little children will one
day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of
their skin but by the content of their character.
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I say to you that our goal is
freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much
she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.
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I want to be the white man's
brother,
not his brother-in-law
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True peace is not merely the
absence of tension:
it is the presence of justice.
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Judicial decrees may not
change the heart;
but they can restrain the heartless
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Injustice anywhere is a threat
to justice everywhere
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As long as the mind is
enslaved,
the body can never be free.
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I know that love is ultimately the only
answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere
I go.
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One has not only a legal, but a moral
responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral
responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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The Negro's great stumbling block in the
stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku
Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order"
than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of
tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice
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If a man has not discovered
something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
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We must live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
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