Quotes 61 till 80 of 156.
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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
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I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
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I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
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I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
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If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
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If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
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In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
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In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
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It was the understanding of the power of perception that allowed the Martin Luther King, Jr. generations to stay true to the strategy of non-violence, refusing to retaliate when every emotional instinct would justify them doing so.
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Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
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Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
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