American - Leader | January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
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Seeing is not always believing.
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We must use time creatively.
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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.
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The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
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