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 JROur scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
More Martin Luther King Jr Quotes
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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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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We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
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True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
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It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
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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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The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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