Martin Luther King

(239 votes)   A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

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(211 votes)   If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(199 votes)   A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

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(186 votes)   I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

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(184 votes)   Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(180 votes)   A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

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(178 votes)   A right delayed is a right denied.

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(176 votes)   All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

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(173 votes)   I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

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(168 votes)   We must use time creatively.

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(166 votes)   Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

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(159 votes)   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.

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(155 votes)   We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

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(154 votes)   Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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(154 votes)   No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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