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We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love harmonies it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others? (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
[Malcolm X] shared with Marcus Garvey a commitment to building strong black institutions. He shared with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a commitment to peace and the freedom of racialized minorities. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
What you might not know is that shortly after she worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others, Rosa Parks had to leave her home in Alabama to escape the constant threat of violence. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half of the world. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated quality education. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
To have peace in the world, men and nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
I have a dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, justice dreaming, dreaming of equality and hopefully no longer required to dream them (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.... (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. From Strength to Love, 1963 (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
[People] don’t see that there’s a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
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. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for everybody. Means and ends are inseparable. The means represent the ideal in the making; in the long run of history destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
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 together at the table of brotherhood. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ... But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)
This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations. (Martin Luther King Jr Quotes)