Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes About Acceptance
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Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
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Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
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We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
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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.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Born: January 15, 1929
- Died: April 4, 1968
- Occupation: Civil rights activist