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Martin Luther King Jr.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

(1929–1968) · American Minister & Activist

American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
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.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
The time is always right to do what is right.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

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