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Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" and "Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?"

We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.

The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.

I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.

Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.

For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.

I may not get there with you, but I believe that we as a people will someday reach the promised land.

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.

I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.

The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.

The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.

One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

I have a dream... I have a dream today... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.

It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.

We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.

The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

Personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions.

Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.

The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties.

Something should remind us once more that the great things in this universe are things that we never see.

We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream.

Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.

When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

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