Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love."	Love, Men
"Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority."	Conformity, Desires, Glory
"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."	Age, Evil, Excellence
"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us."	Evil, Forgiveness, Good
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."	Anger, Ignorance, Sin
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."	Justice
"If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization."	Age, Books, Courage
"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."	Acceptance, Crime, Honesty
"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."	Evil, Good
"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action'; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'"	Ability, Excellence, Freedom
"We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people."	Evil, Good
"I have a dream that my 4 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."	Character, Dreams, Life
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."	Anger, Ignorance, Sin
"The question is no longer between violence and non-violence; it is between non-violence and non-existence."	Violence
"I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."	Death, Life, Men
"One who condones evil is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it."	Evil, Good
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."	Ability, Friends, Love
"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality."	Miscellaneous
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."	Anger, Ignorance, Sin
"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."	Creativity, Lies, Men
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Books	Change	Character
Conflict	Conformity	Courage
Creativity	Crime	Darkness
Death	Desires	Dreams
Evil	Excellence	Faith
Forgiveness	Freedom	Friends
Glory	Goals	Good
Greatness	History	Honesty
Ignorance	Justice	Learning
Liberty	Lies	Life
Light	Love	Loyalty
Memory	Men	Military
Miscellaneous	Monarchy	Music
Peace	Poetry	Power
Regret	Religion	Sin
Sleeping	Stupidity	Success
Time	Truth	Violence
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