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- We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no…
- I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely ever met a…
- At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water of a river,…
- It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights.…
- I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow…
- I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.…
- We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.
- This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins…
- My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every…
- We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from…
- We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that ends are not cut off from means, because the means represent the…
- Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from…
- There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape…
- Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's often vocal sanction…
- There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must never adjust ourselves…
- I was much more afraid in Montgomery when I had a gun in my house. When I decided that I couldn’t keep a gun, I…
- This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of…
- We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never…
- The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the…
- The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn…
- Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism…
- Make a career of humanity... It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that…
- But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure…
- A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from…
- There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a…
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