“I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.”
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Martin Luther King Jr
“If you haven't found something you're willing to die for, than you don't deserve to live”
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Martin Luther King Jr
“In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. ”
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Martin Luther King Jr
“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
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Martin Luther King Jr
“When religion becomes so involved in a future good "over yonder" that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned.”
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Martin Luther King Jr
“The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.”
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Martin Luther King Jr
“If you can't run then walk If you can't walk then crawl but whatever you do don't give up”
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Martin Luther King Jr
“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
“Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
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Martin Luther King Jr