Martin Luther King, Jr.

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. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#fools #learn #live #must #perish

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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