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Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.""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.""We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.""Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated.""I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.""We are not makers of history. We are made by history.""There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.""Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.""It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.""Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.""I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.""There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.""Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.""A right delayed is a right denied.""We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace.""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.""He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.""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."