Quotes by Martin Luther King Jr.

"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase."

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We tend to define success by the size of our income or car, not by the degree of our helpfulness or the maturity of our humanity.

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Man must rise above all human conflict with a method that rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The basis of this method is love.

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The measure of a man is not how he behaves in pleasant and comfortable moments, but how he stands his ground in arguments and how he resolves delicate situations.

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A struggling, yet peaceful life rests on three pillars: simplicity, patience, compassion.

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Those who accept evil and do nothing about it are participating in it in the same way as those who help to commit it.

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You only see the stars when it's dark enough.

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Everyone can be a great person because anyone can serve others. You do not need a university degree to serve. It is not necessary to reconcile the subject with the predicate. All it takes is a grateful heart, a soul imbued with love.

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There is nothing in the world so dangerous as open ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

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A true leader does not seek, but creates consensus.

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If a person's job is to sweep the streets, then sweep roads as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, or as Shakespeare wrote poems. Sweep the roads so well that all the inhabitants of heaven and earth stop for a minute and say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

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Science researches; religion interprets. Science gives knowledge, which is power; religion gives wisdom, which is guidance. Science deals mainly with facts; religion mainly deals with values. The two are not rivals, but complement each other.

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Take the first step with faith! You don't need to see the whole staircase, just the first step.

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If a man finds nothing to die for, then he is not worth living.

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Injustice committed anywhere threatens the existence of justice everywhere.

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I have a dream that one day my four little children will be members of a nation where they are not judged by the color of their skin, but by their character.

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There is no greater power than love. It conquers hatred like light conquers the night.

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Death is not a dead end that leads a person to nothing, but opens a door to eternal life.

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When it's all over, we won't remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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Every person must decide at some point whether they will walk in the light of creative altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. (...) Life's recurring and urgent question: "What are you doing for others?"

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We can only win our rightful place if we do not get involved in unworthy deeds. Thirsty for freedom, let us not drink from the bitter cup of hatred! We must continue our struggle forever on a high level of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. We must rise again and again to the height where physical strength meets spiritual strength.

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If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, you crawl. Whatever you do, you cannot stop: you must go forward on your path.

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The question is not whether we will become extremists, but what kind of extremism we represent. We will be extreme in love or extreme in hate.

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The most important question in life is what we do for others.

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If you can't fly, run! If you can't run, walk! If you can't walk, crawl! The point is to move forward.

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Let's move on from indecisiveness to action! If we do not act, we will slide into the long, dark and shameful abyss that belongs to those who have influence but no compassion, who have power but no morality, who have power but no sight.

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If you can't do big things, do small things in great ways!

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The ultimate measure of a man's worth is not where he stands in moments of comfort and prosperity, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.

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Hate is like a latent cancer, it eats away at the personality and destroys the unity necessary for life. Hate destroys a person's sense of values ​​and judgment. It makes you see the beautiful as repulsive and the repulsive as beautiful, it makes you mistake the true for the false and the false for the true.

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There can be no great disappointment where there is no deepened love.

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You can kill a murderer, but you don't kill the murder itself.

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The minute, the second you commit yourself to freedom, independence and justice, even if your body can be killed, your soul will still win.

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I have a dream: one day the nation will rise up and live what its creed really means.

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There is nothing wrong with power if it is used correctly. You can see what happens when some of our philosophers deviate from the basics. And one of the main problems with history is that the concepts of love and power have generally been opposed to each other, so that love has been interpreted as the renunciation of power and power as the rejection of love.

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Darkness cannot be driven away by darkness, only light can do it. Hate does not drive out hate, only love can.

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Forgiveness is not a one-time act, but a form of behavior.

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The deepest of all tragedies is not that I die young, but that I live to be 75 years old as if I had never really lived.

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