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Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968
Nationality: American
Category: Leader
Subcategory: American Leader

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

   

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

   

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

   

Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?

   

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

   

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

   

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

   

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

   

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

   

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

   

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

   

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

   

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

   

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

   

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

   

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

   

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

   

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

   

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

   

Nonviolence 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.

   

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