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Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
Author: Countess of Blessington
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Racism isn’t born, folks, it’s taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.
Author: Dennis Leary
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One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.
Author: Franklin Thomas
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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.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Perhaps only his sense of humor and irony can save him when he hears the most powerful nation in the world speaking of his aggression as it drops thousands of bombs on a poor weak nation more than eight thousand miles away from its shores.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., about Ho Chi Minh, Beyond Vietnam lecture, 4 April 1968
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As television beamed the image of this extraordinary gathering across the border oceans, everyone who believed in man’s capacity to better himself had a moment of inspiration and confidence in the future of the human race.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., about the March on Washington in the summer of 1963, Why We Can’t Wait, 1963
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If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, ‘There lived a great people – a black people – who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.’ This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., address to Holt Street Baptist Church, 5 December 1955
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If America’s soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Beyond Vietnam lecture, 4 April 1968
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[W]hen you first name becomes ‘nigger,’ your middle name becomes ‘boy’ (however old you are), and your wife and mother are never given the respected title ‘Mrs.’; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro… when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of ‘nobodiness’ – then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail,’ Why We Can’t Wait, 1963
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A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state’s segregation laws was democratically elected?
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail,’ Why We Can’t Wait, 1963
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I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and is willing to accept 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.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail,’ Why We Can’t Wait, 1963
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One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail,’ Why We Can’t Wait, 1963
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The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued that self-defeating path of hate. Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize lecture, 11 December 1968
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The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize lecture, 11 December 1968
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A world war – God forbid! – will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
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But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
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I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
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Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
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Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
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Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
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