145 ordspråk av Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.
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A lie cannot live.
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A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
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A right delayed is a right denied.
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A riot is the language of the unheard.
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Ah! dearest Jesus, Holy Child,
Make thee a bed, soft, undefiled,
Within my heart, that it may be
A quiet chamber kept for thee.
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Ah! dearest Jesus, Holy Child,
Make thee a bed, soft, undefiled,
Within my heart, that it may be
A quiet chamber kept for thee.
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All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
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All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
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An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.
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Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.
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