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“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michealangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, “Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered an outsider anywhere in the country”

Martin Luther King Jr

“Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“Today it is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence; it is either nonviolence or nonexistence.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“There is no noise as powerful as the sound of the marching feet of a determined people.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“The question was not whether one should use his gun when his home was attacked, but whether it was tactically wise to use a gun while participating in an organized demonstration. If they lowered the banner of nonviolence, I said, Mississippi injustice would not be exposed and the moral issues would be obscured.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“Right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love”

Martin Luther King Jr

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

Martin Luther King Jr

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“All of the people of the world cannot do the so-called big things. Some of us will have to be content doing the so-called little things, but we must do the little things in a big way. We must do the ordinary things in an extraordinary manner. And we must overcome our sense of inferiority by doing just this - by somehow accepting that we have to do and doing that well”

Martin Luther King Jr


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