Famous Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

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.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
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Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
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I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
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We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
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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.
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The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
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The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
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