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“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” - Martin Luther King

 

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"The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to live intensively and to think critically. ... Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education." - Martin Luther King

 

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"If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving." - Martin Luther King

 

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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King

 

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"Like anybody, I would like to live a long life — longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will." - Martin Luther King

 

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"There comes a time when we must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right." - Martin Luther King

 

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"The ultimate tragedy ... was not the brutality of the bad people, but the silence of the good people." - Martin Luther King

 

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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" - Martin Luther King

 

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"Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude." - Martin Luther King

 

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"We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope." - Martin Luther King

 

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"Let no man pull you so low as to hate him." - Martin Luther King

 

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"The time is always right to do what is right." - Martin Luther King

 

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"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." - Martin Luther King

 

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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

 

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"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will." - Martin Luther King

 

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"Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter." - Martin Luther King

 

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"We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. The fact is that capitalism was built on the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor — both black and white, both here and abroad." - Martin Luther King

 

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"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it." - Martin Luther King

 

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"The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society." - Martin Luther King

 

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"I have decided to stick with love. ... Hate is too great a burden to bear." - Martin Luther King

 

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"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people." - Martin Luther King

 

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"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think." - Martin Luther King

 

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“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.” - Martin Luther King

 

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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King

 

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"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity." - Martin Luther King

 

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