Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"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
"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
"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."	Creativity, Lies, Men
"A man can't ride your back unless it's bent."	Men
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."	Men, Power
"Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."	Age, Men, Monarchy
"We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart."	Art
"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
"Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective."	Attitude, Loyalty
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."	Darkness, Light, Love
"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
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."	Life, Time
"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
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."	Anger, Ignorance, Sin
"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
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Creativity	Crime	Darkness
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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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