Martin Luther King Jr Quotes
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Every minister of the gospel has a mandate to stand up courageously for righteousness, to proclaim the eternal verities of the gospel, and to lead men from the darkness of falsehood and fear to the light of truth and love.
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She talked about things other than music. I never will forget, the first discussion we had was about the question of racial and economic injustice and the question of peace… I didn’t want a wife I couldn’t communicate with. I had to have a wife who would be as dedicated as I was.
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I have never experienced the so-called ‘crisis-movement’, conversion for me has been the gradual intaking of the whole ideals set forth in my family and my environment, and I must admit that this intaking has been largely unconscious.
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[On his father Daddy King] Real father – someone who always put his family first.
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[On his father Daddy King] he never wastes his money at the expense of his family. He has always had sense enough not to live beyond his means.
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I guess the influence of my father had a great deal to do with my going into the ministry. My admiration for him was the great moving factor; he set forth a noble example I didn’t mind following.
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[In a speech he gave when he was fifteen years old] Black America still wears chains. The finest Negro is at the mercy of the meanest white man.
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[Later I realized] that the poor white was exploited just as much as the Negro.
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[On the need for a socially relevant, intellectually coherent ministry] The shackles of fundamentalism were removed from my body.
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[On capitalism it had] Failed to meet the needs of the masses [and had] outlived it’s usefulness.
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It is quite easy for me to think of a God of Love mainly because I grew up in a family where love was central and where loving relationships were ever present.
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[On God not being a philosophical abstraction or a desperate affirmation of the unknowable, but a] Personal spirit, who in love creates, sustains, and orders all.
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I was well aware of the typical white stereotype, and for a while I was terribly conscious of trying to avoid identification with it.
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Our crime rate is far too high. Our level of cleanliness is far too low… We are often loud and boisterous, and spend far too much on drink. Even the most poverty-stricken among us can purchase a ten-cent bar of soap.
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[As a misguided youth before having white friends except for his first he had been,] determined to hate every white person.
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[On his father despite all their differences he retained] That admiration for a real father.
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But it doesn’t matter with me now. Because I’ve been to the mountain top… And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land.
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I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
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I am going to live in the South, because that is where I am needed.
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[When he was six he was told he could no longer play with his favorite playmate who was white and lived across the road.] When I asked why they said ‘Because we are white and you are colored.’
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[On as a student having to give up his bus seat to a white passenger] That night will never leave my memory. It was the angriest I have ever been in my life.
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That man had some big words, Daddy. When I grow up I’m going to get me some big words.
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We had the feeling that something remarkable was unfolding in the South, and we wanted to be on hand to witness it.
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Cogitating with the cosmic universe, I surmise that my physical equilibrium is organically quiescent.
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The church has always been a second home for me. As far back as I can remember, I was in church every Sunday… My best friends were in Sunday School, and it was the Sunday School that helped to build my capacity for getting along with people.
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I guess I accepted biblical studies uncritically until I was about twelve years old. But this uncritical attitude could not last long, for it was contrary to the very nature of my being. I had always been the been the precocious type. At the age of thirteen, I shocked my Sunday School class by denying the bodily resurrection of Jesus. Doubts began to spring forth unrelentingly.
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The Negro and the Constitution. We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule.
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[On remembering his father refusing to move to the back of the shoe store in order to be served] This was the first time I had seen Dad so furious. That experience revealed to me at a very early age that my father had not adjusted to the system, and he played a great part in shaping my conscience. I still remember walking down the street beside him as he muttered, ‘I don’t care how long I have to live with this system, I will never accept it.’
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[On his first trip away from black segregation to Connecticut] On our way here, we saw some things I had never anticipated to see. After we passed Washington there was not discrimination at all and white people here are very nice. We go to any place we want to and sit any where we want to.
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There was a freer atmosphere at Moorehouse.
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An inner urge to serve humanity.
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Also I met a fine chick in Phila who has gone wild over the old boy. Since [J. Pious] Barbour told the members of his church that my family was rich, the girls are running me down. Of course, I don’t ever think about them, I am too busy studying. I eat dinner at the Barbours home quite often. He is full of fun, and he has one of the best minds of anybody I have ever met.
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[On Martin Luther King Jr] He drifted until he connected Christianity to Gandhi. (Daddy Martin Luther King)
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[In his wallet at the time of death was a Gandhi quote] In the midst of death, life persists… In the midst of darkness, light persists.
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[On joining the church at age t, but did so] Not out of any dynamic conviction but out of a childhood desire to keep up [with his elder sister, Christine].
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[At age 15 about an example of opera singer Marion Anderson] The winners of our highest honors face the class color bar.
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[At age 15] America you have stripped me of my garments, you have robbed me of my precious endowment.
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[At age 15 on ensuring African Americans had the right to vote was the best defense for] the federal ark of liberty from treason and destruction by her enemies.
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[Age 15 on looking forward to the day when he might with his] brother of blackest hue possessing at last my rightful heritage and holding my head erect, stand beside the Saxon – a Negro – and yet a man!
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[On Benjamin Mays he was] One of great influences in my life.
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