Martin Luther King quotes (Part 2)

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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

 
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. 

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. 

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. 

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. 

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. 

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood. 

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
 
I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! 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.  

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

 
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.  

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.  

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.  

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

 
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.  

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.

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.  

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.  

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

 
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.  

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

 
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.
 
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.  

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

 
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.  

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. 

More MLK quotes tomorrow…