Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes About Praise

• I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the man I could be; I may not be the man I truly can be; but praise God, I'm not the man I once was

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, May, Want

• I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Children, Ghetto, Damn You

  "We Need Martin Luther King Jr.’s Antiwar Rage Now More Than Ever" by Ja’han Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 04, 2018.

• The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  People, Too Much, Praise

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