Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes
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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
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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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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
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Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
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Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
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If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
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I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
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We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
