“Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.”
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Martin Luther King Jr
“„Верижната реакция, при която омразата поражда омраза, трябва да бъде пречупена, или ние ще рухнем в тъмната пропаст на взаимното унищожение.”
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Martin Luther King Jr
“The time has come for an all-out war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed. Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for "the least of these".”
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Martin Luther King Jr
“Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.”
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Martin Luther King Jr
“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.”
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Martin Luther King Jr
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.”
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Martin Luther King Jr
“All my adult life I have deplored violence and war as instruments for achieving solutions to mankind’s problems. I am firmly committed to the creative power of nonviolence as the force which is capable of winning lasting and meaningful brotherhood and peace.”
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Martin Luther King Jr
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree”
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Martin Luther King Jr
“If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.”
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Martin Luther King Jr
“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, cruelly mocked, but it an never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
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“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.”
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Martin Luther King Jr
“If there is to be peace on earth and good will toward men, we must finally believe in the ultimate morality of the universe, and believe that all reality hinges on moral foundations.”
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Martin Luther King Jr
“I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.”
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Martin Luther King Jr
