Think of the words of a man that wanted nothing more in this world than peace, love, and everlasting justice for every man, women, and child in this world. Martin Luther King Jr. will forever be put on a pedastal aside peace and true honest integrity.
"Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better."
"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."
"A man can't ride your back unless it's bent."
"When the slaves get together is the beginning of getting out fo slavery."
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
"An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."
"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. "
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."
"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see."
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
"Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."
"I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law."
"If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive."
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends"
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."
"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
"Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him."
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal."
"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."
"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
"Seeing is not always believing."
"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."
"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists."
"The time is always right to do what is right."
"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."
"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."
"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality."
"When you are right you can never be too radical; when you are wrong, you can never be too conservative."
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