Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"A man can't ride your back unless it's bent."	Men
"A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan."	Death, Men
"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."	Excellence, Greatness, Men
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."	Darkness, Light, Love
"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
"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love."	Art, Excellence, Greatness
"Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude."	Attitude, Forgiveness
"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it."	Darkness, Life, Light
"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
"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."	Creativity, Lies, Men
"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
"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
"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
"If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live."	Death, Life, Men
"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played 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."	Art, Excellence, Life
"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
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."	Friends, Memory
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."	Justice
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."	Ability, Friends, Love
"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love."	Conflict, Love, Men
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Creativity	Crime	Darkness
Death	Desires	Dreams
Evil	Excellence	Faith
Forgiveness	Freedom	Friends
Glory	Goals	Good
Greatness	History	Honesty
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Light	Love	Loyalty
Memory	Men	Military
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Regret	Religion	Sin
Sleeping	Stupidity	Success
Time	Truth	Violence
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