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 | "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out
the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident
that all men are created equal."" | |
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Found in the topic Dream.
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| "Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats
away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man"s sense of values and his
objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly
as beautiful, and to confuse. The true with the false and the false with
the true." | |
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Found in the topic Hate.
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| "And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it
ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city,
we will be able to speed up that day when all of God"s children, black men
and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able
to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at
last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last."" | |
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Found in the topic Africa.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now
surely fail. ... Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned
tho" we may be, our destiny is tied up with America"s destiny." | |
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Found in the topic Slavery.
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| "Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable
fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called
words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of
the heart." | |
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Found in the topic Joy.
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| "The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant
of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide
and the critic of the state, and never its tool." | |
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Found in the topic Church.
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| "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 down
together at the table of brotherhood." | |
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Found in the topic Civil.
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| "There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep
love." | |
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Found in the topic Civilization.
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| "If a man hasn"t discovered something he will die for, he isn"t fit
to live." | |
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Found in the topic Idea.
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| "We must use time creatively ? and forever realize that the time is
always to hope to do great things." | |
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Found in the topic Good.
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| "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and
conscientious stupidity." | |
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Found in the topic Stupidity.
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| "I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro"s
great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White
Citizen"s Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is
more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which
is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of
justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but
I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically
believes he can set the timetable for someone else"s freedom; who lives by
a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for
a "more convenient season."" | |
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Found in the topic Freedom.
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| "The time is always right to do what is right." | |
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Found in the topic Reform.
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| "The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we
live." | |
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Found in the topic Modern.
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| "All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and
should be undertaken with painstaking excellence." | |
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Found in the topic Labor.
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| "Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love
harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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| "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite
hope." | |
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Found in the topic Adversity.
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| "Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must
love our enemies?or else? The chain reaction of evil?hate begetting hate,
wars producing more wars?must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into
the abyss of annihilation." | |
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Found in the topic Enemy.
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| "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a
friend." | |
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Found in the topic Endure.
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