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6b5ea90 Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace. Martin Luther King Jr.
1c407b9 Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist. Martin Luther King Jr.
5e93ec0 And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! Martin Luther King Jr.
9ae1db6 We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. motivational Martin Luther King Jr.
6f86f50 I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. Martin Luther King Jr.
8907cea Courage faces fear and thereby masters it Martin Luther King Jr.
1291508 Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the qu icksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Martin Luther King Jr.
bf42649 The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open Martin Luther King Jr.
f9f440f Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonitio.. Martin Luther King Jr.
5f0bbc2 Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper. racism silence slavery politics corrupt martin-luther-king-jr civil-rights-movement corruption race-relations Martin Luther King Jr.
7dc5639 On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, "Is it popular?" But Conscience asks the question, "Is it right?"... The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience, but where he stands in moments of challenge, moments of great crisis and controversy." Martin Luther King Jr.
f1de718 This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts: Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there. Martin Luther King Jr.
90f106b Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts, religion deals with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary. Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralysing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.. Martin Luther King Jr.
01fe05e The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world ," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free." Martin Luther King Jr.
f8f98c3 The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all. freedom-of-expression freedom-of-choice freedom-of-speech weapon freedom-of-thought weapons protest Martin Luther King Jr.
6d5757f Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless e.. time Martin Luther King Jr.
656303f One of the greatest problems of history is that the concepts of love and power are usually contrasted as polar opposites. Love is identified with a resignation of power and power with a denial of love. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting every.. Martin Luther King Jr.
d3336b1 A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution. social-movements Martin Luther King Jr.
8ca16a9 Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. Martin Luther King Jr.
b93dd16 Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. Martin Luther King Jr.
aab3d7a On the parable of the Good Samaritan: "I imagine that the first question the priest and Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But by the very nature of his concern, the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?" Martin Luther King Jr.
1f3911a Wherever the early Christians entered a town the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being 'disturbers of the peace' and 'outside agitators.' But they went on with the conviction that they were a 'colony of heaven' and had to obey God rather than man. They were small in number but big in commitment. They were too God-intoxicated to be 'astronomically intimidated.' They brought an end to such ancient evil.. Martin Luther King Jr.
24374db The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles o popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. Martin Luther King Jr.
df26148 In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. inspirational Martin Luther King Jr.
9906fe7 You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November. There.. Martin Luther King Jr.
fbccacf What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness? mind love inspirational intellect Martin Luther King Jr.
849bb45 The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. human-rights nations foundations revolt justice-system justification nation Martin Luther King Jr.
511e358 Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method. nonviolence Martin Luther King Jr.
0229402 Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn. Martin Luther King Jr.
5b1d6db Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Many of our inner conflicts are rooted in hate. This is why the psychiatrists say, "Love or perish." Hate is too great a burden to bear." Martin Luther King Jr.
88af4d7 Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil. nonviolence Martin Luther King Jr.
c9d380b I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable Martin Luther King Jr.
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e0d1cb1 Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. prejudice racism hope ignorance Martin Luther King Jr.
485d68c I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. Martin Luther King Jr.
e489720 Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right. Martin Luther King Jr.
76b5e2b Unity has never meant uniformity. Martin Luther King Jr.
90052ff And in every one of us, there's a war going on. It's a civil war. I don't care who you are, I don't care where you live, there is a civil war going on in your life. And every time you set out to be good, there's something pulling on you, telling you to be evil. It's going on in your life. Every time you set out to love, something keeps pulling on you, trying to get you to hate. Every time you set out to be kind and say nice things about peo.. Martin Luther King Jr.
a96c82c I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends. Martin Luther King Jr.
fa0900e The time has come for an all-out war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed. Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for "the least of these"." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
5ae17cd I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you. Martin Luther King Jr.
8ed717f Lamentably, it is a historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals. privilege status-quo Martin Luther King Jr.
519c8df We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience. hatred racism nonviolence segregation civil-rights-movement civil-rights racism-in-america peace conscience resistance protest Martin Luther King Jr.
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