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“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpentlike qualities is to be sentimental, anemic, and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems....”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.” 

― Martin Luther King Jr

“The ultimate tragedy of Birmingham was not the brutality of the bad people, but the silence of the good people.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“There can be no deep disappointment where there in not deep love.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“We must either learn to live together as brothers, or we are going to die together as fools.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“If a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.”

― 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.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive”

― Martin Luther King Jr


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