If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRIf I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRNonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRThe greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRTrue peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRAn individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRTrue compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRNot everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JROur lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRI have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRWhenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRScience investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JROne of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRThe day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRLet no man pull you so low as to hate him.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JRCowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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