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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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Subject:
Leadership   
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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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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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Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
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Motivational   
Struggle   
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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.
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Hope & Dreams   
Unity   
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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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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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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Subject:
Stupidity   
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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
Subject:
Life   
Philosophical   
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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War   
Peace   
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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 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!
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Equality   
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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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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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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.
Subject:
Acceptance   
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The time is always right to do what is right.
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Time   
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