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And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don’t just set out to do a good job (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
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 (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s peaceful, determined struggle for social justice, and Sargent Shriver, who launched the Peace Corps, were early heroes. A career of public service was the ultimate aspiration (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - This nation cannot survive half slave and half free (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man’s creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Mankind’s survival is dependent on man’s ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems is in turn dependent upon man’s squaring his moral progress with his scientific progress, and learning the practical art of living in harmony. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Every person must stand up and be accountable, but be responsible for their actions (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
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. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
It’s soul force that removed the English from India. It’s soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It’s soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s struggle for civil rights. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
My charge as prime minister is to take any decision that is in the best interest of the country (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
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. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
We must stand up and say, I’m black and I’m beautiful, and this self-affirmation is the black man’s need, made compelling by the white man’s crimes against him. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
It is our experience that the nation doesn’t move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Was not Paul an extremist for the gospel of Jesus Christ? - I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother’s keeper. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are inevitably our brother’s keeper because we are our brother’s brother. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)