Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future.
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Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideals hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different.
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Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.
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The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.
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If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.
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The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing.
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From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action.
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I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
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There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people.
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Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
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When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.
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Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.
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Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be as armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should have the strength of deep analysis beneath them to be able to challenge the clever sophistries of our opponents.
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To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.
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Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
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Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better.
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We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.
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We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.
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Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
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When we rise in the morning... at the table we drink coffee which is provided to us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African; before we leave for our jobs we are already beholden to more than half the world.
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I was convinced that worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to realize their oneness and unity under God. Whenever the church, consciously or unconsciously, caters to one class it loses the spiritual force of the "whosoever will, let him come, doctrine and is in danger of becoming a little more than a social club with a thin veneer of religiosity."
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Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed.