Here are some of our favorite Martin Luther King. Jr. thoughts:
"All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality."
"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
"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."
"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."
"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
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Displaying 1 CommentWheelock College
Lincoln,, MA, United States
Thank you, Bonnie and Roger for these quotes. I'm remembering
King's masterful use of language that suggest and call forth values that we all share: the visions of Thomas Jefferson for equality; the
lines from familiar American songs;
the building on shared religious values. His work built from the black church, and it was a black-led movement, but the white churches were compelled to join in fully, by their own convictions and principles.
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