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Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women.... When we arise in the morning.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
A fifth point concerning nonviolent resistance is that it avoids not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
There comes a time when people get tired of being plunged into the abyss of exploitation and nagging injustice.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
Unfortunately, most of the major denominations still practice segregation in local churches, hospitals, schools, and other church institutions.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
Nonviolent resistance makes it possible for the Negro to remain in the South and struggle for his rights.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.

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