Life’s most persistent & urgent question is..
I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Â Martin Luther King, Jr.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Â Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. Â Martin Luther King, Jr.
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important. Â Martin Luther King, Jr.
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. Â Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’Â Â ~Martin Luther King, Jr.