“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” ![]() ![]() “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” This too will be a fierce struggle, but we must not be afraid to pursue the remedy, no matter how formidable the task.” “Just as nonviolence exposed the ugliness of racial injustice, so must the infection and sickness of poverty be exposed and healed – not only its symptoms, but its basic causes. Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.” “Either we go up together or we go down together. And thereby they injected a new meaning into the veins of history and of civilization.” ![]() “…when the history books are written in the future, somebody will have to say, “There lived a race of people, a black people, ‘fleecy locks and black complexion’, a people who had the moral courage to stand up for their rights. ![]() “It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world: it’s nonviolence or nonexistence that is where we are today.” But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop.” “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.”
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