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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, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

Was born on: 15.01.1929
About Author: American clergyman, activist and Nobel Peace Prize (1964)

Returning hate for hate

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Strength to Love, 1963

Time when people get tired of oppression

There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression.

Address to the first Montgomery Improvement Association Mass Meeting, 5 December 1955

Freedom and justice

[...] we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

Negros and injustice

We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one.

I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

True peace

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Quoted in Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Stephen B. Oates, 1982

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