"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Quotes by 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."
"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."
"Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will."
"Only in the darkness can you see the stars."
"Only in the darkness can you see the stars."
"We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’."
"There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love."
"the time is always right to do the right thing"
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."
"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo 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 street sweeper who did his job well."
"Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others."
"No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for."
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."
"We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
"It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it."
"If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live"
"No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for."