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There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.
The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.
Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody.
School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.
Be concerned about your brother...eithe r we go up together, or we go down together.
Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.
In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy.
If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.
Every person must stand up and be accountable, but be responsible for their actions.
The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people
A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL
Everyone has an opportunity to be great because everyone has an opportunity to serve.
It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.
I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.
There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.
Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.
It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.
I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.
Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job.
The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.
Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.
The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.
We all can't be famous but we can all be great and we become great when we serve others
War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.
The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.
O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world
I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.
Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.
As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.
My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.
Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.
Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.
If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.