Martin Luther King
American preacher
Lived from: 1929 - 1968
Category: Theologians and clergy Country: 
United States
Born: 15 january 1929 Died: 4 april 1968
Quotes 61 till 76 of 76.
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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
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We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.
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We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Source: Letter from Birmingham Jail, 16 april 1963― Martin Luther King -
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
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We must use time creatively - and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.
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We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
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We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
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When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
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When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
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Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.
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One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
― Martin Luther King
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