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
life respect men
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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If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
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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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The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
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I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
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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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We must use time creatively.
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Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
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Seeing is not always believing.
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We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
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All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
gratitude art acceptance
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.