When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
From Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.
Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.
To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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