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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
There's no reason to be non-violent. There's no challenge unless you are living for people.
As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.
My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.
The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.
If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted.
Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.
Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day
The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.
Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.
Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.
God made the world from nothing, and if we can be nothing, then God can make something of us.
Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.
We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.
The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.
One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong
There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.
Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."
Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.
"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."
Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Look at the John Birch Society. Look at Hitler. The reactionaries are always better organizers.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.
Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.
What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.
A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy
You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.
Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.
In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.
The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. Each can spell either salvation or doom.
By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.
Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.
We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.
Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.