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Quotes from Rediscovering Lost Values — Martin Luther King Jr.

1929–1968 United States

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There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.

Rediscovering Lost Values (1954)

The real problem is that through our scientific genius we've made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we've failed to make of it a brotherhood.

Rediscovering Lost Values (1954)

The trouble isn't so much that our scientific genius lags behind, but our moral genius lags behind. The great problem facing modern man is that, that the means by which we live have outdistanced the spiritual ends for which we live.

Rediscovering Lost Values (1954)

A whole day's journey—didn't mean to do it. We just became so involved in things that we forgot about God. And that is the danger confronting us, my friends: that in a nation as ours where we stress mass production, and that's mighty important, where we have so many conveniences and luxuries and all of that, there is the danger that we will unconsciously forget about God.

Rediscovering Lost Values (1954)

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