Martin Luther King Jr Quotes

• 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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  Tags in Community, Expressing

• 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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  Tags in Tension, Surface

• It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Wages, Peace

• The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

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  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Guilt, Need

• War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

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  Tags in Tomorrow

• Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Surrounds, Property

• Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

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  Tags in Seek, Means

• The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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  Topics in Past

  Tags in Assert, Prophetic

• We must use time creatively.

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  Tags in Creatively

• I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

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  Tags in Man, Brother

• We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

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  Tags in Negative, Concentrate

• There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Breadth, Devoid

• It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

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  Topics in Society

  Tags in Crimes, Committed

• The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

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• A riot is the language of the unheard.

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• All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

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• Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

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• I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

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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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• The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

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Martin Luther King Jr (163)

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

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