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#152

“I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison.”
― Bell Hooks

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#153

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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#154

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

tags: inspirational

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#155

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational

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#156

“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational

7082 likes

#157

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: hate, love

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#158

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: conscience, politics, right

4830 likes

#159

“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.

tags: hope, inspirational

5686 likes

#160

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: challanges

2913 likes

#161

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: ignorance

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#162

“A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

tags: death-life-convictions

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#163

“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: activism, service

2174 likes

#164

“Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: happiness

1463 likes

#165

“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: death, inspirational

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#166

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: injustice

1744 likes

#167

“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: forgiveness

1656 likes

#168

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo 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.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: excellence, inspirational

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#169

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: character, dream, inspirational, prejudice, race

1102 likes

#170

“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: hitler

1094 likes

#171

“We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: brotherhood, inspirational, wisdom

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#172

“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: fear-communication

905 likes

#173

“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: war

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#174

“No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: dream, dreams

829 likes

#175

“the time is always right to do the right thing”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational

702 likes

#176

“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: activism, healing, inspirational, justice, sacrifice

1083 likes

#177

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: military, social-change, war

791 likes

#178

“Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: acquiescence

740 likes

#179

“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: justice, love, segregation

672 likes

#180

“The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: war

527 likes

#181

“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: awarness, consciousness, help, world

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