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If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!
There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.
It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are.
The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.
You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.
We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn.
Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.
Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
If you've got nothing worth dying for, you've got nothing worth living for.
A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for
From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action
Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.
But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.
It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many
To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.
Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.
The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.
True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people.
When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism.
But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.
Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.
Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.
What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?
Make no mistake about those who call themselves anti Zionist are anti Semitic.
It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.
Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever.
I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth
Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone
We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.
I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.
Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.
Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
And see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky.
It's not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.
The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.