Martin Luther King

American preacher

Lived from: 1929-1968

Category: Theologians and clergy

Quotes: Martin Luther King

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

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  War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

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  We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

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  We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
  Source: Letter from Birmingham Jail, 16 april 1963

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  We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

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  We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

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  We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

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  We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

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  We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

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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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  We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

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  We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

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  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.

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  When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

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  When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

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