“I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Category: love
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Category: forgiveness
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“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. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“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.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Category: equality
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“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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