Quotes From Martin Luther King Jr.
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content
of their character.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling
power.
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A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
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There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society, with a large segment
of people in that society, who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel
that they have nothing to lose. People who have a stake in their society,
protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want
to destroy it.
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If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will
pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless
midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood
can never become reality. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word.
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Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral.
It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction
for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than
win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence
is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.
