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“Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but... groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

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

― Martin Luther King Jr

“This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“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.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men".”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“All labor has dignity.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“After the riot in Chicago that Summer, I was greatly discouraged. But we had trained a group of about two thousand disciplined devotees of nonviolence who were willing to take blows without retaliation. We started out engaging in constitutional privileges, marching before real estate offices in all-white communities. And that nonviolent , disciplined, determined force created such a crisis in the city of Chicago that the city had to do something to change conditions. We didn’t have any Molotov cocktails, we didn’t have any bricks, we didn’t have guns, we just had the power of our bodies and our souls. There was power there, and it was demonstrated once more.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” 

― Martin Luther King Jr

“It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

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“We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.”

― Martin Luther King Jr


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