It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Martin Luther King Jr.If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michealangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, “Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King Jr.My call to the ministry was not a miraculous or supernatural something. On the contrary it was an inner urge calling me to serve humanity.
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It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time.
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: silence change indifference violence generations repentance social-justice social-movements bad-people good-people vitriol
Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.
Martin Luther King Jr.What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: inspirational love mind heart intellect
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.
Martin Luther King Jr.Privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
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Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but... groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.
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