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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Biography

Author Profession: Leader

Nationality: American

Born: January 15, 1929

Died: April 4, 1968

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Henry B. Eyring, Jefferson Davis, Bayard Rustin, Brigham Young, Ezra Taft Benson, Juliette Gordon Low, Walter Reuther, Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Topics

Anywhere, Everywhere, Injustice, Justice, Threat

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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.

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Day Character Children Equality

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

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Love Light Forgiveness Darkness

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

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Love War Peace Racism

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

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Justice Struggle Sacrifice Suffering

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

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Friendship Love Love Is Friend Enemy

The time is always right to do what is right.

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Time Brainy Always Right

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

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Education Character Intelligence True

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

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Peace Justice I Am Battle

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

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Good Silence People Bad People

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love Best Good Forgiveness

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

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Hope Disappointment Lose Never Must

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

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Leadership Leader Genuine Searcher

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

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Good History Silence People

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

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Life You Doing Others Question

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