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Quote DB :: Authors :: Martin Luther King Jr. :: View Quote View Quote "True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Martin Luther King Jr. Listed in: Justice, War & Peace Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.6  Rate Quote 30 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." "Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." "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 content of their character." "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Top 5 quotes from Justice, War & Peace "Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago." "I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts." "Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal." "A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader." "If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!"

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