Martin Luther King Jr. quotes - page 20

God is not interested merely in freeing black men and brown men and yellow men, but God is interested in freeing the whole human race. We must work with determination to create a society, not where black men are superior and other men are inferior and vice versa, but a society in which all men will live together as brothers and respect the dignity and worth of human personality. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
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. View quote
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With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our world into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to speed up the day when justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream. View quote
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You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. And you can be that servant. View quote
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First, we must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. It is impossible even to begin the act of loving one's enemies without prior acceptance of the necessity, over and over again, of forgiving those who inflict evil and injury upon us. It is also necessary to realize that the forgiving act must always be initiated by the person who has been wronged, the victim of some great hurt, the recipient of some tortuous injustice, the absorber of some terrible act of oppression. View quote
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A man who does not have something for which he is willing to die is not fit to live. View quote
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I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus' thinking, is this: that. View quote
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One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, cruelly mocked, but it an never be taken away unless it is surrendered. View quote
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Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. View quote
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams. View quote
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Third we must not seek to defeat or humiliate the enemy but to win his friendship and understanding. At times we are able to humiliate our worst enemy. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. View quote
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We meet these people every day. And so this is not a foreign subject. It is not something far off. It is a problem that meets us in everyday life. We meet it in ourselves, we meet in other selves: the problem of selfcenteredness. View quote
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All men are made in the image of God. All men are brothers. All men are created equal. Every man is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth. Every man has rights that are neither conferred by, nor derived from the State - they are God-given. Out of one blood, God made all men to dwell upon the face of the earth. What a marvelous foundation for any home! View quote
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True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. View quote
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So somehow the "isness" of our present nature is out of harmony with the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts us. And this simply means this: That within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals. View quote
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Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people. View quote
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Jesus is eternally right. History is replete with the bleached bones of nations that refused to listen to him. View quote
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Now the great temptation of life and the great tragedy of life is that so often we allow the without of our lives to absorb the within of our lives. The great tragedy of life is that too often we allow the means by which we live to outdistance the ends for which we live. View quote
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Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism. View quote
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I'm going on believing and knowing that God is alive. You see, as long as love is around, God is alive. As long as justice is around, God is alive. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
This is the prayer I pray to God every day, "Lord help me to see M. L. King as M. L. King in his true perspective.” Because if I don't see that, I will become the biggest fool in America. View quote
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Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change. ... Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly. View quote
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Our dreams will sometimes be shattered and our ethereal hopes blasted. View quote
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Another way is to acquiesce and to give in, to resign yourself to the oppression. View quote
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