Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLeader
Date of Birth15 January 1929
CountryUnited States of America
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To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.
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Rioting is not revolutionary.
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Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten....America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness-justice.
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Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.
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I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
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Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.
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For years, I labored with the idea of reforming the existing institutions in the South, a little change here, a little change there. Now I feel quite differently. I think you've got to have a reconstruction of the entire system, a revolution of values.
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We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine.
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There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.
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No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity
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With the tough mind, there must also be a tender heart.
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I've decided to stick with love.
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Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.
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So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.