“There are some things so dear, some things so precious, some things so eternally true, that they are _____ dying for."
“If you want to say that I was a ____ major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all the other shallow things will not matter.”
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional ____ will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
"World _____ through non-violent means is neither absurd or unattainable."
"The ____ of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people.
“Let no man ___ you so low as to hate him.”
“You can kill the _____ but you can’t kill the dream.”
"If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving ____!"
"Our policies should have the strength of deep analysis beneath them to be able to _____ the clever sophistries of our opponents.”
“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right – especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the ones we inflict on our ____ when we look the other way.”
"A productive and happy life is not something you find: it is something you ____."
"No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has _____."
"School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's ____."
"We must pursue peaceful ____ through peaceful means."
"____ is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for _____?'"
“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the _______, it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
“Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a ____, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.”
"And the lion and the lamb shall lie down together and every man shall sit under his own vine and ___ tree and none shall be afraid.”
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo 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 ____ well.”
"______ plus character — that is the goal of true education."
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual _____.”
“Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to ____ it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”
"__ a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
"Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent ____."
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the _____ of their skin but by the content of their character.”
“People fail to get along because they ____ each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”
"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same ____ now."
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the _____of their character.”
"Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take ____ directions."
"Only through an inner spiritual transformation do we gain the strength to fight vigorously the evils of the world in a ____ and loving spirit."
"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous _____."
“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right – especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at _____. Society’s punishments are small compared to the ones we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”
“Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or _____ is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”
"Let us not lose faith in man and certainly not in God. We must believe that a prejudiced mind can ____ changed, and that man, by the grace of God, can be lifted from the valley of hate to the high mountain of love."
'We must learn that to expect ___ to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition."
"There is no ____ in human resources, the deficit is in human will…The time has come for an all‐out world war against poverty.”
'We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but _____."