Winning Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr

16 Winning quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr

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If you think of triumph in the context of civil rights, King's words resonate deeply. This set of sixteen statements captures his nuanced view of success, from personal integrity to collective progress.

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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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One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we…

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A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win…

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If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best…

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The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is…

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The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and…

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Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral…

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Do to us what you will, and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and as difficult…

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Somebody must have sense enough to meet hate with love. Somebody must have sense enough to meet physical force with soul force.…

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The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness…

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Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win…

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Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic…

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Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is…

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We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is…

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The use of violence in our struggle would be both impractical and immoral. To meet hate with retaliatory hate would do nothing…

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I would be misleading you if I made you feel that we could win a violent campaign. It's impractical even to think…

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