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One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace, Heart, Winning
Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication to discern that while everbody talks about peace, peace has become practically nobody's business among the power-wielders. Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

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Peace, Men, Goal

True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.

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Compassion, Humanity, Coins

My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Country, Sweet, Father
I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have rolled past and when the blazing light of truth is focused on this marvelous age in which we live - men and women will know and children will be taught that we have a finer land, a better people, a more noble civilization - because these humble children of God were willing to suffer for righteousness' sake.

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Children, Humble, Past
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.116, Beacon Press

Even though I have never had an abrupt conversion experience, religion has been real to me and closely knitted to life. In fact the two cannot be separated; religion for me is life.

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Life, Real, Two
Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.54, Univ of California Press

My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there is a world of difference. Gandhi resisted evil with as much vigor and power as the violent resister, but True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to evil power. It is rather a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love. . . .

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Love, Courage, Two
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.99, Beacon Press

It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly because I grew up in a family where love was central and where lovely relationships were ever present.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love, Thinking, Easy
Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.359, Univ of California Press

I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.

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Inspirational, Hometown, Particular
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.86, Beacon Press

Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

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Inspirational, Aids
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.56, Beacon Press

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

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Inspirational, Atlanta, Injustice Anywhere
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.86, Beacon Press

I would not hesitate to say that it is unfortunate that so-called demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham at this time, but I would say in more emphatic terms that it is even more unfortunate that the white power structure of this city left the Negro community with no other alternative.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inspirational, Cities, White

We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

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Inspirational, Mean, Direct Action
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.57, Beacon Press

I am thankful, however, that some of our white brothers have grasped the meaning of this social revolution and committed themselves to it. They are still all too small in quantity, but they are big in quality.

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Inspirational, Brother, White
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.99, Beacon Press

The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

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Yoke, Want, Moments
Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.3, Beacon Press

We all can't be famous but we can all be great and we become great when we serve others

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified.... All three were crucified for the same crime-the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

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Jesus, Men, Two

So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others.

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Law, Long, Mind
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, National Education Association of the United States (1979*). “Building networks for nonviolent social change: report of the Fourth Annual Summer Institute on Nonviolence, Atlanta, Georgia, July 31-August 2, 1980 [i.e. 1979]”

When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.

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Cutting, Certain, Persons
Martin Luther King, Jr. (2017). “Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.29, Melville House

I have DECIDED to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. GOD is love.

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Thinking, God Love, God Is Love
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.205, Beacon Press

I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Philosophy, Believe, Equality

There is something in this universe that justifies the biblical writer in saying, "You shall reap what you sow." This is a law-abiding universe. This is a moral universe. It hinges on moral foundations. If we are to make of this a better world, we've got to go back and rediscover that precious value that we've left behind.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inspiring, Biblical, Law
"Rediscovering Lost Values". Sermon delivered at Detroit's Second Baptist Church, February 28, 1954.

Is is always time to do the right thing.

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Right Thing

If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men, Dying, Found

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace, Kings, Hatred
"Where do we go from here: Chaos or community?". Book by Martin Luther King Jr., 1967.

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