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“I had a dream”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can’t stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they’ll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That’s love, you see. It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. There’s something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies. (from "Loving Your Enemies")”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

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

― Martin Luther King Jr

“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.” 

― Martin Luther King Jr

“Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“The absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“Through violence you may murder the hater, but you cannot murder hate.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“...privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

“Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.”

― Martin Luther King Jr


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