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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Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.
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Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job.
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Why is the church always a taillight rather than a headlight?
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We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.
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When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.
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We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.
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True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
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There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.
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The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.
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Never before have I written so long a letter. I'm afraid it is much too long to take your precious time. I can assure you that it would have been much shorter if I had been writing from a comfortable desk, but what else can one do when he is alone in a narrow jail cell, other than write long letters, think long thoughts, and pray long prayers?
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Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
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It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.
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In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.
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I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence.