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I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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