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- ...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Speech in Memphis, April 3, 1968, the day before King was assassinated
- We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Speech at St. Louis, March 22, 1964
- 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.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963
- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963
- Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963
- I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964
- Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Speech at Civil Rights March on Washington, August 28, 1963
- I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Speech in Detroit, June 23, 1963
- Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), In a speech at the White House, 1962
- I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree. - Joyce Kilmer (1886 - 1918), "Trees" (poem), 1914
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