Tag: Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.
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To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Seeing is not always believing.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.