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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.. Martin Luther King Jr.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.. Martin Luther

I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.. Martin Luther King Jr.

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

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?. Martin Luther King

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.. Martin Luther King

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm

Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.. Martin Luther King Jr.

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

Find a voice in a whisper.. Martin Luther King Jr.

Find a voice in a whisper.

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.. Martin Luther

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of

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

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk

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.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.. Martin Luther King Jr.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

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.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation - either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.

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.

the time is always right to do the right thing

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

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

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

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

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

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.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

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

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.

In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.

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

If you can't run then walk If you can't walk then crawl but whatever you do don't give up

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Only God is able. It is faith in Him that we must rediscover. With this faith we can transform bleak and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of joy and bring new light into the dark caverns of pessimism.

God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way

We must use time creatively - and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

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.

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

Only a "dry as dust" religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the social conditions that cause men an Earthly hell.

What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

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.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay.

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Admitting the weighty problems and staggering disappointments, Christianity affirms that God is able to give us the power to meet them. He is able to give us inner equilibrium to stand tall amid the trials and burdens of life. He is able to provide inner peace amid our outer storms.

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.

We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany.

My call to the ministry was not a miraculous or supernatural something. On the contrary it was an inner urge calling me to serve humanity.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."

-From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

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

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered an outsider anywhere in the country

There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

We must substitute courage for caution.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

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