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The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
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There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
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Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
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We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women…. When we arise in the morning, we go into the bathroom where we reach for a sponge provided for us by a Pacific Islander. We reach for soap that is created for us by a Frenchman. The towel is provided by a Turk. Then at the table we drink coffee which is provided for us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African. Before we leave for our jobs, we are beholden to more than half the world.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
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We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed…. This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man’s earthly pilgrimage.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
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Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
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[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolent. This is why Gandhi often said that if cowardice is the only alternative to violence, it is better to fight.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
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A fifth point concerning nonviolent resistance is that it avoids not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. The nonviolent resister not only refuses to shoot his opponent but he also refuses to hate him.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
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A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
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As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
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As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: ‘The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.’
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
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Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference…. In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
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Nonviolent resistance makes it possible for the Negro to remain in the South and struggle for his rights. The Negro’s problem will not be solved by running away.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
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The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery’s buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: ‘My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest.’
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
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Unfortunately, most of the major denominations still practice segregation in local churches, hospitals, schools, and other church institutions. It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’clock on Sunday morning, the same hour when many are standing to sing: ‘In Christ There Is No East Nor West.’
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
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I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968
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If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you to go on in spite of all. And so today I still have a dream.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968
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It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968
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Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968
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We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968
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