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If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

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The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.

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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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All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

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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.

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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

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Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

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Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Leader

Born: January 15th, 1929

Died: April 4th, 1968

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