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«Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Life,
Social service
| Keywords:
question, urgent
«That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
blind, Do the Right Thing, eye, Eye for an eye, law, leaves, left and right, old times, Right Thing
«The time is always right to do what is right.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
The Time
«If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
Beethoven, composed, even as, hosts, Michelangelo, painted, pause, pausing, Shakespeare, sweep, sweeper, sweepers, wrote
«Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' 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 because conscience tells one it is right.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
asks, conscience, cowardice, expediency, More popular than, neither, Nor, politic, popular, popular with, position, positioning, question, safe, safes, tells, The Question, The Right Questions
«When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
conservative, radical
«A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.»
«If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
discovered, fit, fit to
«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.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
law, lynch, lynched, lynching, pretty, The Law
«Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
almost, Almost always, creative, dedicated, dedicates, dedicating, minority
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