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If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inspirational, Inspiring, Peace

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Political, Ends, Kings And Love
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.145, Beacon Press

A lie cannot live.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Liars, Lying, Deception

We must use time creatively.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Music, Time, Use
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.96, Beacon Press

The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Progress, Despair, Movement
Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.101, Beacon Press

Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideals hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men, Views, People
Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inspirational, Death, Faith
Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Climate, Breaking Silence, Today
Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.

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Law, Unjust, Natural
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.60, Beacon Press

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Politics, Madness, Militarism
Sermon at Temple Israel of Hollywood, delivered 26 February 1965

We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dream, Peace, Civilization

You only need a heart full of grace

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Heart, Greatness, Helping Others
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.222, Beacon Press

Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will always be a slave. For all another man needs to do is threaten to take your life to get you to do his bidding.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men, Important, Needs

We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Years, Justice, Alternatives
Jim Haskins, James Haskins, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1992). “I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Millbrook Pr

At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Brother, Responsibility, Heart
Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
People, Tasks, Force
"Honoring Dr. DuBois". Speech at International Cultural Evening at Carnegie Hall, February 23, 1968.

I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Struggle, Men, Companionship
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.72, Beacon Press

It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively. I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Time, Ill Will, People
"The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings".

There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid or day laborer

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Vision, Citizens, Adequate

We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Reality, Earth, Eating Breakfast
Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life, Peace, Kings
Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2007). “Dream: The Words and Inspiration of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.55, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed to the light of human conscience before it can be cured.

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Light, Air, Medicine
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press

I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why does the government use massive doses of violence to bring about the change it wants in the world?" After this I knew that I could no longer speak against the violence in the ghettos without also speaking against the violence of my government.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kids, Ghetto, Government

Seeing is not always believing.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inspirational, Believe, Vision

We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
God, Fear, Science
Strength Through Love Ch. 13

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