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World Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr

110 World quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr

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A creative minority can make the world better, while loving your enemies is described as essential for the survival of civilization. Martin Luther King Jr. also warns that success and conformity can numb us, that violence won’t solve problems, and that everyday actions, like eating breakfast, show how we depend on each other.

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We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

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Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

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There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.

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I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.

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Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.

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Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world

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The United States is the largest exporter of violence in the world

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Love is the most durable power in the world.

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A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.

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God made the world from nothing, and if we can be nothing, then God can make something of us.

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Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world.

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Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day

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The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts…

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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

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There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.

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To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.

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It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice,…

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When we rise in the morning... at the table we drink coffee which is provided to us by a South American, or…

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If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race,…

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There is something in this universe that justifies the biblical writer in saying, "You shall reap what you sow." This is a…

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Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby…

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The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the…

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We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be…

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And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. This is the way…

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As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As…

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We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history…

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In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate…

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I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the…

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This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of…

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I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but…

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World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is…

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Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you,…

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Unarmed love is the most powerful force in all the world.

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Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

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If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree

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Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

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It is Love that will save our world and our civilization.

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The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trail-blazers in human, scientific and religious freedom have always been in…

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We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.

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Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

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Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

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The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.

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Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And…

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Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

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What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.

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The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt.

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The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence…

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Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth,

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I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will…

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