"It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Advice, Man, Jest, Self

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"It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps."

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"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."

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"Let no man pull you so low as to hate him."

Emotion

"I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that."

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"We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

Humanity

"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

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"But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars."

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"Through violence you may murder the hater, but you cannot murder hate."

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"One cannot worship the false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time. ."

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"That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing."

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"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."

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