Silence Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr

19 Silence quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr

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Martin Luther King, Jr. uses silence to highlight both oppression and the need for thoughtful action. His 19 statements balance moral urgency with the calm needed to forge lasting change.

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A time comes when silence is betrayal.

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The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

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Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind

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The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

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I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.

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It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the…

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The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through…

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We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for…

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The time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us today... ...some of us who have already begun to…

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I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain…

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Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation…

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A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the…

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On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial…

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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the…

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It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills.…

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History will have to recordThat the greatest tragedy of this period of social transitionWas not the vitriolic words and the violent actions…

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A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year…

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The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when…

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