Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective."	Attitude, Loyalty
"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
"If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live."	Death, Life, Men
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."	Friends, Memory
"Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude."	Attitude, Forgiveness
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."	Learning, Life
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."	Faith
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."	Life, Time
"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."	Change, Friends, Men
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it."	Darkness, Life, Light
"We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart."	Art
"A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan."	Death, Men
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."	Darkness, Light, Love
"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."	Excellence, Greatness, Men
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Death	Desires	Dreams
Evil	Excellence	Faith
Forgiveness	Freedom	Friends
Glory	Goals	Good
Greatness	History	Honesty
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Liberty	Lies	Life
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