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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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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 and say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."

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God is not merely interested in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

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One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

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Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

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If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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But I know somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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I have a dream today.

– Martin luther king jr.

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The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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The part of continuing the notion of white supremacy must change, at some point, we must be one country.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

Found on CNN 8 years ago

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