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Quotations By Martin Luther King Jr.


Beliefs
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Conflict
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Conscience
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Danger
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Diplomacy
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

Understanding
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Understanding
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.