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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Riots are the voices of the unheard.
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We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.
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Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
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Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin,...
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Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.
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Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.
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Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
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Be true to what you said on paper.
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Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.
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Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.
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Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.
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To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
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Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.