American - Leader | January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
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Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
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The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'
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Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.
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Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
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That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
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