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So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.
We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.
Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.
If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.
Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
I have DECIDED to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. GOD is love.
We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification.
I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.
We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.
Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.
We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.
I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.
We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris
We must have the faith that things will work out somehow, that God will make a way for us when there seems no way.
Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.
While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important.
Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.
Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.
Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.
I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for.
Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies.
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.
We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.
Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.
[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.
You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.