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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968. He is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, tactics his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi helped inspire.

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People are often led to causes and often become committed to great ideas through persons who personify those ideas. They have to find the embodiment of the idea in flesh and blood in order to commit themselves to it.

Blood, Commit, Ideas, Order, Persons

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Commitment, Disciplined, Hope, Livable, Lying, Peace

By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.

Inspirational, Men, Negro, Resistance, Struggle

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

Answers, Know, Love, Love Is, Problem, Problems

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

Children, Real, Dark, Injustice, Justice, Quicksands

We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.

Conviction, Night, Radiant, Spiritual, Work, Working Together

There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. . . . The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. . . . To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

Allow, Black History, Down, Giving Up, People, Thing

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

Inspirational, Peace, Freedom, Satisfy, Seek

It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: "We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer".

Brother, Hate, Inflict, Philosophy, Plunge, Soul

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Character, Education, Function, Teach, Teacher, Teaching

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

America, Bank, Believe, Opportunity, Refuse, Vaults

The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing.

Burned, Jesus, Love, Majestically, Military, Past

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

Knowing, Life, Life Is, Right, Sin

There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth

Constructive, Growth, Tension, Type

I was much more afraid in Montgomery when I had a gun in my house. When I decided that I couldn’t keep a gun, I came face-to-face with the question of death and I dealt with it. From that point on, I no longer needed a gun nor have I been afraid. Had we become distracted by the question of my safety we would have lost the moral offensive and sunk to the level of our oppressors.

Gun, House, Longer, Lost, Safety, Sunk

Music is the best consolation for a despaired man

Consolation, Man, Men, Music, Music Is

I do think there must be centralized leadership in the sense that, say, in our struggle all of the leaders coordinate their efforts, cooperate and, and at least evince a degree of unity.

Cooperate, Effort, Leaders, Sense, Struggle, Thinking

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

Dream, Peace, One Day, Places, Hill, Straight

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

Fools, Men, Obscurity, Thousand, Wise

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds. '

America, Come, I Have A Dream Speech, Insufficient, People

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