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“You can't stop a bird from landing on your head. But you can keep it from building a nest.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“Whatever I was, I owed to my family and to all those who struggled with me. But my biggest debt I owed to my wife. She was the one who gave my life meaning. All I could pledge to her, and to all those millions, was that I would do all I could to justify the faith that she, and they, had in me. I would try more than ever to make my life one of which she, and they, could be proud. I would do in private that which I knew my public responsibility demanded.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“[God] seeks us in dark places and suffers with us in our tragic prodigality.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of East and West, white and colored, individuals and collectivists; in a world whose cultural and spiritual power lags so far behind her technological capabilities that we live each day on the verge of nuclear co-annihilation; in this world, nonviolence is no longer an option for intellectual analysis, it is an imperative for action”

Martin Luther King Jr

“The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win, and their participants know it.”

Martin Luther King Jr

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

Martin Luther King Jr

“We all came in on different ships, but we're all in the same boat now”

Martin Luther King Jr

“When religion becomes so involved in a future good "over yonder" that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“„Понякога в живота има моменти на неизразимо удоволствие, което не може напълно  да бъде обяснено със тези символи, наречени думи. Тяхното значение може  да бъде изразено само от недоловимият език на сърцето.”

Martin Luther King Jr

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

Martin Luther King Jr

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

Martin Luther King Jr

“I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“Instinctively we struck out for dignity first because personal degradation as an inferior human being was even more keenly felt than material privation.”

Martin Luther King Jr


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