Martin Luther King, JR - he had much more depth than his famous speech, please look him up!
- Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- 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.
- I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
- Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
- Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
And my favorite part of his speech:
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.
That part of his speech hit me the other day, when a girl claimed walking into a building brought on the thoughts of "movies of the ghetto with Blacks and Mexicans in it." Good thing she'd never be invited to my home! I pity her children, what a homogeneous, boring life they will be led to have.
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