Quotes From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society, with a large segment of people in that society, who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that they have nothing to lose. People who have a stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
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 reality. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
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