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• "Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."

• "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

• "Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

• "...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man."

• "When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."

• "I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."

• "A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan."

• "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

• "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

• "Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
  Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
  Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
  But conscience asks the question - is it right?"

• "And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right."

• "If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as 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 streetsweeper who did his job well."

• "But I know somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars."

• "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

• "Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today."

• "Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

• "The time is always right to do what is right."

• "I’ve seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say:”We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we’ll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory."

• "Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war."

• "Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?"

• "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

• "The negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt."

• "If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

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

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