Martin Luther King

(152 votes)   I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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(146 votes)   Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude.

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(142 votes)   We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

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

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(128 votes)   When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, ''Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!''

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

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(120 votes)   Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

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

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(116 votes)   If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

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

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(84 votes)   Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born

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(76 votes)   Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.

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(75 votes)   Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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(72 votes)   Intelligence plus character is the true meaning of education.

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(71 votes)   Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

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(69 votes)   Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: -- we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

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

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(66 votes)   An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

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(65 votes)   In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

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

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