Cancer Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

“Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.”

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The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.

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Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves…

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Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

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We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living. If we…

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The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.

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The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.

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Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

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What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.

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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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If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

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Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body.

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Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

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“Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world sweetest cancer.”

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Bollywood is a cancer.

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“the doctor hesitated before breaking the news to her. "those aren't stars. it's cancer." - forty years a smoker”

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I loved you to the moon and back

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