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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We who 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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There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth
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With the tough mind, there must also be a tender heart.
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I am not afraid of the word tension.
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Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times.
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Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.
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Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
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There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.
To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.
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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
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On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.
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We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties.
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Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.