Dr. Martin Luther King Jr (1929–1968)
Baptist minister and African American civil rights activist
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- "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
- "You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You’re really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry… Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong…with capitalism… There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a Democratic Socialism."
- Source: Frogmore, S.C. November, 14, 1966. Speech in front of his staff.
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- "A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard."
- "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends."
- "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
- "It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
- "On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, "Is it popular?" But Conscience asks the question "Is it right?" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right."
- "Our scientific powers have outrun our spiritual powers; we have guided missiles and mis-guided men."
- "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
- "The time is always right to do what is right."
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