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American civil rights leader. Leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and advocate of nonviolent protests of segregation and other anti-civil rights laws. Best known for his speech "I Have a Dream" (1963). Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
The repository contains seven quotes from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. 1.Principle:
If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
2.Best:
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo 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.
3.Friendship:
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
4.Walter L. Morristivation:
You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
5.Behavior:
Life’s most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
6.Justice:
That old law about an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.
7.Right and Wrong:
One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
