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“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

Martin Luther King Jr. · Freedom

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

Respect

Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

Life

Martin Luther King Jr.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Leadership

Martin Luther King Jr.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.

Forgiveness