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Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.""You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream.""There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.""The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.""Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.""If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo 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.""Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.""We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.""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.""Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.""We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.""If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.""No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.""Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.""Everybody can be great because everybody can serve.""The bell of truth sounds loudest in times of moral tension and decision.""The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.""There comes a time when silence is betrayal.""We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.""In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."