Martin Luther King

(63 votes)   We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

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

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(62 votes)   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.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(61 votes)   The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

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(59 votes)   Riots are the voices of the unheard.

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

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(57 votes)   He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

Martin Luther King, Jr

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(55 votes)   When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

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(54 votes)   We are not responsible for feeling down

Martin Luther King
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(53 votes)   We have guided missiles and misguided men.

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(52 votes)   The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.

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

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(52 votes)   The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

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(51 votes)   Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

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(51 votes)   Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

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

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(51 votes)   We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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(50 votes)   All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Black Civil Rights & Religious Leader - 1929-1968 American

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(50 votes)   If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played 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.

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