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Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
«Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Racism
| Keywords:
acceptance, bewilder, bewildering, lukewarm, outright, rejection, rejections
«If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
America and Americans,
Cruelty,
Destiny,
Freedom,
Slavery
| Keywords:
abused, cruelties, scorned, The opposition, Tho, tied, tied up
«If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
black book, black people, courageously, Historians, inject, injected, injecting, injects, pause, protest, veins
«To be a Negro in America is to hope against hope.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
African American,
America and Americans,
Hope
| Keywords:
Negro
«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!»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
fearing, The Coming, worried
«It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: ''We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer.''»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
Forces of Evil, Hate You, inflict, Meeting Point, Negro, Philosophy of, physical force, plunge, plunges, pure white, quest, quest for, the South, to the point, wear down
«The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
discontent, invigorate, invigorated, invigorates, invigorating, swelter, sweltering
«We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
anxieties, atomic, atomic bomb, genuflect, genuflected, mitigate, mitigated, mitigates, producing, The atomic bomb
«Man's inhumanity to man is not only perpetrated by the vitriolic actions of those who are bad. It is also perpetrated by the vitiating inaction of those who are good.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
inaction, perpetrate, perpetrated, perpetrates, vitiated, vitiating, vitriolic
«Now, it should be incandescently clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America today can ignore the present war. If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
America Today, autopsy, poisoned, Vietnam, Vietnam War
