Martin Luther King Jr Quotes

• Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.

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  Topics in Religion
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  We must learn to live together as brothers or we are going to perish together as fools.

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  Topics in Inspirational, Wisdom

  Tags in Labor, Learn, Freedom

• Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

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  Topics in Life

• Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

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  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Freedom

• A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

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  Topics in Spirituality

• Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

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  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Hope

• Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

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  Topics in Inspirational

• It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

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  Topics in Inspirational
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  We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

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  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Different, Cooperation, Ships

• Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Carvings, Tomorrow, War

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

• We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Silence
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  One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Activism, Law

• The time is always right to do the right thing.

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  Topics in Inspirational

• If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Martyrdom
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  In the struggle for human dignity, the oppressed people of the world must not succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter or indulging in hate.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hate, Struggle

• 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.

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  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Controversy, Security, Choice, Choosing

• One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.

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  Topics in Inspirational

• The Arc of the Moral Universe Is Long, but It Bends Toward Justice

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  Topics in Inspirational

• What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

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  Topics in Inspirational

Martin Luther King Jr (163)

Birth:	15th January, 1929
Death:	4th April, 1968
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Clergyman, Leader, Writer

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