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You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., to the eight fellow clergymen who opposed the civil rights action, ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail,’ Why We Can’t Wait, 1963
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[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and… every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
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[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
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And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
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Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
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Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can’t win… the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt and enmeshed in evil that there is no possibility of salvation from within.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
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But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
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‘I’ cannot reach fulfillment without ‘thou.’ The self cannot be self without other selves. Self-concern without other-concern is like a tributary that has no outward flow to the ocean.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
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It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah’s curse upon the children of Ham…. The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation of the Negro.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
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President Lyndon Johnson’s high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt to be historic, the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act…. The bill that lay on the polished mahogany desk was born in violence in Selma, Alabama, where a stubborn sheriff… had stumbled against the future.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
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The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
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The Negro is the child of two cultures – Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
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The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
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When Negroes looked for the second phase, the realization of equality, they found that many of their white allies had quietly disappeared…. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
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When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well…. But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
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Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
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The conservatives who say, ‘Let us not move so fast,’ and the extremists who say, ‘Let us go out and whip the world,’ would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can’t Wait, 1963
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The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can’t Wait, 1963
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We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can’t Wait, 1963
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