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Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
«Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it. Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights. Make it a central part of your life. It will make you a better doctor, a better lawyer, a better teacher. It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man. Make a career of humanity.Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights.You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Beliefs,
Career,
Future,
Humanity,
Human Rights,
Life,
Nobility
«Non violent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity with arraying himself in vindictive force.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Action,
Change
| Keywords:
Action The, arraying, divest, divested, Negro, non violent, passivity, replace, supplement, supplements, vindictive
«The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Freedom,
Justice
| Keywords:
block, citizens, devoted, Great White, moderate, moderated, moderating, Negro, stumbling, The White, to order
«I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
American Dream, argue, bring forward, confidently, distinctions, distributed, distributes, Distributing, equality, equality of opportunity, In Living Color, Italians, Italian A, Jews, Land of Opportunity, luxuries, necessities, Negroes, privilege, realization, separateness, skin color, The Italian, unfulfilled, widely, widely distributed
«Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
blemished, blemishes, Body of, body of Christ, christ, church, Church A, Church of the, my church, neglect, nonconformist, nonconformists, scarred, social, The Body, The Church, yes
«Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
absolute, frustrates, frustrating, good will, ill will, misunderstanding, misunderstandings, People of, shallow
«We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not yet learned the simple art of living together as brothers.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
Art of Living, brothers, fly fishing, Fly The, How to swim, living together, not yet, swam, swim, To Fly
«The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Discipline
| Keywords:
brotherhood, dedicated, disciplined, livable, nonconformist, nonconformists