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Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life
Being
Earth
Rights
Man
Property
Respect
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dignity
Excellence
Humanity
Importance
Labor
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love
A riot is the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language
Riot
A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language
Riot
A right delayed is a right denied.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Right
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Money
Defense
Military
Nation
Spiritual
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
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Progress
Solution
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Minority
World
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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Humanity
Living
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Community
Conscience
Imprisonment
Injustice
Law
Order
Reality
Respect
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Power
Right
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love
Truth
Evil
Reality
Right
Will
Word
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love
Peace
War
Sacrifice
Wage
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Society