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“Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.”

“We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“But 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.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.”

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.”

Source: The Radical King

“In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s ‘I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America's ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.”