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Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King

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Violence creates more social problems than it solves.

Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King

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A nation that spends more money on military armament than on social programs approaches spiritual death.

Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King

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Nothing a man does is more debasing than allowing himself to stoop so low as to hate someone.

Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King

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Our generation will not have regretted so much the crimes of the wicked, as the chilling silence of the kind-hearted.

Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King

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No one will ride over us if we don't bend our backs.

Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King

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Injustice, wherever it may be, is a threat to Justice as a whole.

Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King

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Discrimination against black people is present in every moment of their lives to remind them that inferiority is a lie that only the society that dominates them accepts as true.

Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King

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I maintain that whoever breaks a law because their conscience deems it unjust, and willingly accepts a prison sentence in order to raise social consciousness against that injustice, actually displays a higher respect for the law.

Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King

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Man was born into barbarism, where killing one's fellow human being was a normal condition of existence. He was granted a conscience. And now the day has come when violence towards another human being must become as abhorrent as eating the flesh of another.

Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King

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From my Christian upbringing, I have obtained my ideals, and from Gandhi, the technique of action.

Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King

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Perhaps suffering and love have a redemptive capacity that men have forgotten or, at least, neglected.

Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King

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The arm of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.