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Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism... We are now faced with the fact,

Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism... We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lying, Hero, Racism
"Beyond Vietnam". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Speech at Riverside Church in New York City, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. April 4, 1967.

Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jesus, Realist, Idealist
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.64, Beacon Press

A host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wisdom, Husband, Children
"Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967.

Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt and enmeshed in evil that there is no possibility of salvation from within.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Philosophy, Winning, Views

It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tired, Destiny, Life Is

We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
African American, Baptists, Socialism

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Encouragement, Fear, Patriotic
Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.120, Beacon Press

Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
White, Prejudice, Ignored
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.16, Beacon Press

Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inspirational, Dying, Found

Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love, Expression, Surrender
Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speak, Existential, Moments

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sacrifice, Self, Denial
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.33, Beacon Press

Don't let anybody take your manhood.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Manhood

Don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have the compassion and understanding for those who hate us. We must realize so many people are taught to hate us that they are not totally responsible for their hate. But we stand in life at midnight; we are always on the threshold of a new dawn.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hate, Compassion, People

I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Income, Poverty, Prove
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “"All Labor Has Dignity"”, p.117, Beacon Press

Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Suicide, Exercise, Past
Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Real, Men, Order

Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice, Justice Denied, Diminish

Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. Each can spell either salvation or doom.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Opportunity, Danger, Salvation
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.73, Beacon Press

Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful episode.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Race, Population, Doctrine

We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dream, America, Way

There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Climate, World, Tragic

Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fall, Nihilism, Valleys
Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

The existence of poverty in the US should not be accepted as a necessary evil or insoluble problem, but should be considered a crisis requiring emergency measures. It is a matter of will and priorities, not a matter of resources.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Evil, Priorities, Matter

All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America; in doing so, the affluent Americans will eventually have to face themselves with the question that Eichman chose to ignore: How responsible am I for the well-being of my fellows?

Martin Luther King, Jr.
America, Faces, Affluence
Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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