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Good Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?
- For you all think God is one who rewards good and punishes evil, but I say to you that God is one who loves you…
- I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is…
- History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but…
- World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting…
- What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?
- But I say to you, my friends, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted…
- Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.
- Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.
- 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…
- As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases…
- Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.
- By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.
- I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent…
- 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…
- It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is…
- History will have to recordThat the greatest tragedy of this period of social transitionWas not the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad…
- Now let me say that the next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and good will toward…
- When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.
- The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people
- 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…
- Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been…
- True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved.…
- Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like qualities devoid of…
- You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.
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