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Other Martin Luther King Jr. quotes:
Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.
A man who does not have something for which he is willing to die is not fit to live.
A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.
The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.
We must rapidly begin the shift from a 'thing-oriented' society to a 'person-oriented' society.
