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A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: March on Washington, 1963
Discover the element of good in your enemy. And as you seek to hate him, find the center of goodness; place your attention there and you will take a new attitude.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: March on Washington, 1963
Nonviolent resistance is not aimed against oppressors, but against oppression.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: March on Washington, 1963
Unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: March on Washington, 1963
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: March on Washington, 1963
As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Memorial in Washington, DC
You begin to love men, not because they are likable, but because God loves them. You look at every man, and you love him because you know God loves him.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Martin Luther King and President Lyndon Johnson, 1966
Nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites — acquiescence and violence — while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: University of Minnesota, St. Paul, 1967
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: March on Washington, 1963
With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Civil Rights March on Washington DC 1963
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Martin Luther King, 1957
There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Memorial in Washington DC
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Westminster Abbey: 20th-Century Martyrs, West Door — Mother Elizabeth of Russia, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Archbishop Oscar Romero, and Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Nonviolence is the answer to the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Washington, D.C. riots in April 1968 following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Freedom Riders plaque, Birmingham
The time is always right to do what’s right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Richmond sit-ins
Our weapon is our vote.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 while Martin Luther King and others look on.
Everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Hungarian uprising, Budapest, 1956
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love?
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Little Rock, 1959. Rally at state capitol, protesting the integration of Central High School.
In any cause that concerns the progress of mankind, put your faith in the nonconformist! Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Selma March (for fair use see Wikipedia)
Violence creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Bloody Sunday, Alabama 1965
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Bloody Sunday, Alabama 1965
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Marchers carrying banner "We march with Selma!" on street in Harlem, New York City, New York, 1965.
Be concerned about your brother. Either we go up together, or we go down together.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: St. John the Divine sculpture: Martin Luther King, Jr., Albert Einstein, Susan B. Anthony, and Mahatma Gandhi.
Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: photo by ForestWander
A riot is the language of the unheard.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Ferguson, Missouri, 17 August 2014 by Loavesofbread
He who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness. Everybody can be great because everybody can serve.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: March on Washington, 1963
There is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Sicilian fisherman at dawn
Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Martin Luther King, Jr. 1964
I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida. Photo by Michael Rivera.
He who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Martin Luther King Historic Site in Atlanta. Photo by Sjkorea81.
Love is the only answer to mankind's problems, and I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: March on Washington, 1963
I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy in St. Augustine, Florida, 1964
We must always maintain a kind of divine discontent.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. being arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for "loitering" in 1958.
The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate: love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Historical marker; photo by Markuskun
Let us not despair. Let us realize that as we struggle for justice and freedom, we have cosmic companionship.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Free at Last sculpture, Marsh Plaza, Boston University.
We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody that is far superior to the discords of war.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Odetta performs at the March on Washington, 1963
We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Leaders of the March on Washington, 1963
Through violence you may murder a murderer but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: photo by William Marlow
War is not the answer.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: photo by Scott Ableman
Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: photo by Zach Frailey
A great nation is a compassionate nation.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day march, Seattle, 2003
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Sculpture in Atlanta; photo by T.
Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Selma to Montgomery March, 1965
If I hit you and you hit me, and I hit you back and you hit me back, and so on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Selma to Alabama march, 1965
It is love that will save our world and our civilization, love even for enemies.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Anti-Vietnam-War demonstration, 1968
He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery. Freedom is still the bonus we receive for knowing the truth.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Mural on the wall of row houses in Philadelphia. The artist is Parris Stancell, sponsored by the Freedom School Mural Arts Program. Left to right; Malcolm Shabazz (Malcolm X), Ella Baker, Martin Luther King, Frederick Douglass.
Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: William Frantz Elementary School, New Orleans, 1960. After a Federal court ordered the desegregation of schools in the South, U.S. Marshals escorted a young Black girl, Ruby Bridges, to school.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: Civil rights activists arrested - Tallahassee, 1961.
When we truly believe in the sacredness of human personality, we won't exploit people, we won't trample over people with the iron feet of oppression, we won't kill anybody.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: March on Washington, 1963
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: March on Washington, 1963
The rich must not ignore the poor because both rich and poor are tied in a single garment of destiny. All life is interrelated, and all men are interdependent.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: March on Washington, 1963
The goal of America is freedom. Abused and scorned though we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image: March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965
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