Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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I've decided to stick with love.
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Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.
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Make no mistake about those who call themselves anti Zionist are anti Semitic.
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
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"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life.
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A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
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When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up & express their anger & frustration if you refuse to hear their cries. A riot is the language of the unheard.
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A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
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Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.
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Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.
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I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
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The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.
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Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.
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As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this is a false issue, for the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.
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Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent.
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If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.
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...we must realize that a vast majority of believers are still searching and will continue to search for the being who is the "source of human good." Those who seek with clear heads and sincere hearts will in some measure find. Of course the true seeker will realize that there is no one way to find God. To be sure, there are many possible ways of finding God.
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I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.