It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRWe must substitute courage for caution.
More Martin Luther King Jr Quotes
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
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The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
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Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
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We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.
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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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You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
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