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Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968
I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968
We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia.
Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968
Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man.
Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968
It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism.
Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you to go on in spite of all.
Martin Luther King, Jr., to the eight fellow clergymen who opposed the civil rights action, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait, 1963
You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
When Negroes looked for the second phase.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham....
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt to be historic.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
"I" cannot reach fulfillment without "thou." The self cannot be self without other selves.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside.
 
 
 
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