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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
1929-1968

Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today.

A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, serving as its first president. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history.

King's main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States, which has enabled more Americans to reach their potential.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
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I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.
topics: hate , love  
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Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.
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If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
topics: inspirational  
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But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
topics: hope , inspirational  
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Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
topics: hatred , wisdom  
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There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
topics: ignorance  
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Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
topics: education  
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Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
topics: activism , service  
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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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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
topics: forgiveness  
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If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
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Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
topics: happiness  
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Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can’t stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they’ll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That’s love, you see. It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. There’s something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies. (from "Loving Your Enemies")
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There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
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There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
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I 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.
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I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
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