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Nation Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line…
- 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…
- The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see…
- Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war...…
- Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a…
- I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear annihilation... I believe…
- A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to…
- 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…
- Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.
- I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No…
- One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters they were in reality standing up for…
- 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…
- 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…
- Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."
- Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of…
- Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps…
- There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro of…
- But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults…
- History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising…
- Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days,…
- Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation.
- If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is this…
- In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified.... All three were crucified for the same crime-the crime of extremism. Two were extremists…
- 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…
- We are not wrong, we are not wrong in what we are doing. If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong.…
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- Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. — Honore de Balzac
- The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. — Francis Bacon
- Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! — Honore de Balzac