145 ordspråk av Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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Non violent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity with arraying himself in vindictive force.
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Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which reje
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Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
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Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: / we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
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Now, it should be incandescently clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America today can ignore the present war. If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam.
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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.
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One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.
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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society...shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
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Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.
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Our forebears labored without wages. They made cotton "king." And yet out of a bottomless vitality, they continued to thrive and develop.
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Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.
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Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
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