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 JRDarkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
More Martin Luther King Jr Quotes
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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
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We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.
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We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
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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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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong
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We must use time creatively – and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.
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A lie cannot live.
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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
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Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent
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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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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
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Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
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