Martin Luther King

(36 votes)   Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.

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(36 votes)   Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

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(36 votes)   The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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(35 votes)   I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

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(35 votes)   If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

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(35 votes)   It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

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(35 votes)   Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

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(35 votes)   Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

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(35 votes)   The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

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(35 votes)   We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

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(34 votes)   A riot is the language of the unheard.

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(34 votes)   Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

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(34 votes)   An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

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(34 votes)   If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

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(34 votes)   One who breaks an unjust 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 law.

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