Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLeader
Date of Birth15 January 1929
CountryUnited States of America
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- self-esteem
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- first-love
- generosity
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- justice-for-all
- justice
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If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
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Intelligence plus character is the true meaning of education.
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.
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I have a dream, that one day on the red hills of Georgia...
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Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.
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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.
violence
Violence multiplies violence.
superstitions
We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.
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Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?
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Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.
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We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.
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A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.
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And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.