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"I am happy that I didn't sneeze." Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes  
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Quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., an American political activist, the most famous leader of the American civil rights movement, and a Baptist minister. He received the Nobel Peace Prize before he was assassinated in 1968. Martin Luther King Day was established in his honor.

	I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
	A riot is the language of the unheard.
	When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews, You are talking anti-Semitism.
	We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
	One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
	Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro. Something within has reminded him of his birthright of freedom, and something without has reminded him that it can be gained.
	Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
	I have a dream...
	We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.
	When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.
	Be concerned about your brother. You may not be on strike. But either we go up together, or we go down together.
	And I want to say tonight, I want to say that I am happy that I didn't sneeze.
	Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
	In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
	If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played 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.
	It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
	Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
	Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
	Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
	I've been beaten so many times, I've become immune to it.
	Our scientific powers have outrun our spiritual powers; we have guided missiles and mis-guided men.
	Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
	The greatest sin of our time is not the few who have destroyed but the vast majority who sat idly by.
	The time is always right to do what is right.
	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.
	True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice.
	We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
	We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
	We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
	If you haven't found something to live for you better find something to die for.

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