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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Way, Minors, Majors

In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of nonviolence and the Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach will bring about a solution to the race problem in America. His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to violence.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Christian, Struggle, Love Is

Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Light, Darkness, Driven

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hate, Love Life, Mind Love
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.141, Beacon Press

I have a dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, justice dreaming, dreaming of equality and hopefully no longer required to dream them

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dream, Justice, Keep Dreaming

Our destiny is tied up with the destiny of America.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Destiny, America, Tied Up
Source: www.theatlantic.com

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
White, Unjust, May
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.100, Beacon Press

We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you....Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and, as difficult as it is, we will still love you.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love, Children, Home
"Loving Your Enemies". Sermon by Martin Luther King, Jr. at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, www.skeptictank.org. November 17, 1957.

As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this is a false issue, for the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Home, Self, Expression

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Differences, People, Evil
Source: www.theatlantic.com

Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men, Fellow Man, Flesh
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.113, Beacon Press

Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
War, Evil, Growth
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.131, Beacon Press

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Choices, World, Today
I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Winning, Beloved Community, Understanding
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.100, Beacon Press

Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Leaving, Criminals, Proud
Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inspirational, Ideas, United States
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.57, Beacon Press

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life, Tragedy, Young

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Judgement, Influence, Nonviolent Communication

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kings, Character, Power
"The Civil Sphere". Book by Jeffrey C. Alexander, p. 388, 2006.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Opposites, Creative, Synthesis
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.21, Beacon Press

I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Agony, Trying, Life Is

Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Personality
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.65, Beacon Press

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inspirational Life, Mean, Ends
Strength to Love ch. 7 (1963)

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Children, Reality, Justice
I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hate, Cutting, Evil
"Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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