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. Power Quotes
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All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Power Quotes
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We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Power Quotes
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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Power Quotes
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The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Power Quotes
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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrows.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Power Quotes
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We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
Martin Luther King, Jr. The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
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Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Martin Luther King, Jr. The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientiousness stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr. The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the "oughtness" that forever confronts him.
Martin Luther King, Jr. The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr. The Book of Positive Quotations
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The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr. The Book of Positive Quotations
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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 hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King, Jr. The Book of Positive Quotations
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We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King, Jr. The Book of Positive Quotations
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr. The Book of Positive Quotations
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Now is the time.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
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Life's most persistant and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
Martin Luther King, Jr. Bits and Pieces
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