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Letter "M" » Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
«I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Power
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Best interests, interested, moral, Moral right, sake
«All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Solution
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face to face, precarious, solution
«No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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And Justice For All, do justice, justice, justices, mighty, righteousness, rolls, roll down, roll over, roll up, satisfied, stream, streaming, waters, water down
«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.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
appall, appalled, appalling, appalls, clamor, clamoring, period, record, social, strident, tragedy, transition, transitions
«Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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block, dammed, dams, dam up, dangerously, Establishing, flow, Law and Order, social justice, social order, social structure, structured
«At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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center, non, principle, The Center
«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.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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likely, looking, looking for, searching, seek, surest
«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.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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abnormal, collective, constantly, distorting, distorts, harness, harnessed, harnesses, harnessing, improve, inner, master, motivates, motivating, normal, paralyses, paralysis, poisons, protects, rid, rid of, welfare
«He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Evil
| Keywords:
accepts, cooperate, cooperated, cooperating, helps, involved, passively, perpetrate, perpetrated, perpetrates, protested, protesting, protests
«The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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My own, purveyor, violence
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