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“Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris”

Martin Luther King Jr

“We are 10 percent of the population of this nation and it would be foolish for me to stand up and tell you we are going to get our freedom by ourselves. There’s going to have to be a coalition of conscience and we aren’t going to be free here in Mississippi and anywhere in the United States until there is a committed empathy on the part of the white man of this country, and he comes to see along with us that segregation denigrates him as much as it does the Negro.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive”

Martin Luther King Jr

“Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“You can't stop a bird from landing on your head. But you can keep it from building a nest.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“You just have to take the first step , you don't have to see the whole staircase.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say”

Martin Luther King Jr

“The time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us today...  ...some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak.”

Martin Luther King Jr

“Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both.” 

Martin Luther King Jr

“Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.”

Martin Luther King Jr


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