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"There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love."	Love
"A riot is the language of the unheard."	Miscellaneous
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."	Miscellaneous
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."	Miscellaneous
"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality."	Miscellaneous
"Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism."	Miscellaneous
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."	Miscellaneous
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."	Miscellaneous
"We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools."	Miscellaneous
"Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is a permanent attitude."	Miscellaneous
"We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive."	Miscellaneous
"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 one's conscience tells one that it is right."	Morality
"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good."	Morality
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."	Morality, Science
"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."	Morality
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."	Politics
"Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love."	Race
"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."	Race
"Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power."	Race
"The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt."	Race

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