Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.
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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
Subject:
Appearance & Attitudes   
Struggle   
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We must use time creatively.
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Creativity   
Time   
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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.
Subject:
Laws   
Discrimination   
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When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Subject:
Advice   
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The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
Subject:
Freedom   
Equality   
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Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
Subject:
Motivational   
Struggle   
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Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Subject:
Laziness   
Thinking   
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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Stupidity   
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Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Subject:
Equality   
Justice   
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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
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Community   
Nation   
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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 together at the table of brotherhood.
Subject:
Hope & Dreams   
Unity   
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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. I have a dream today!
Subject:
Equality   
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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
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Shallow   
Philosophical   
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I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
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Laws   
Work:
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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War   
Peace   
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The time is always right to do what is right.
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Time   
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
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Acceptance   
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When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Thinking   
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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
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Life   
Philosophical   
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