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- He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did…
- 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…
- Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism…
- 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…
- I would not hesitate to say that it is unfortunate that so-called demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham at this time, but I would say…
- My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.
- To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.
- 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…
- Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. This is the calling…
- The most dangerous type of atheism is not theoretical atheism, but practical atheism -that's the most dangerous type. And the world, even the church, is…
- My friends, all I'm trying to say is that if we are to go forward today, we've got to go back and rediscover some mighty…
- As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension…
- There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up....…
- A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part…
- Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the…
- I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.
- To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.
- Every now and then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral. ... Every now and then I ask myself,…
- Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say, "Punish…
- And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has…
- We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic…
- It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without,…
- It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare…
- If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have…
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