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I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Learning, Knowledge, Men
Martin Luther King's Acceptance Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1964.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love, Life, Sad
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.67, Beacon Press

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love, Inspirational, Acceptance
1962 Speech at Cornell College, Mt Vernon, Iowa. Reported in the Wall Street Journal, 13 Nov.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Powerful, War, Greatness

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beautiful, Struggle, Long
Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mistake, Mind, Use

We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we will not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace, War, Sacrifice
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.109, Beacon Press

I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Struggle, Grateful, Church
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.97, Beacon Press

I think a revolution can survive without single centralized leadership.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thinking, Revolution
Source: www.theatlantic.com

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Success, Wisdom, Careers
Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace, Philosophy, Struggle
Kenneth L. Smith, Martin Luther King (Jr.), Ira G. Zepp (1986). “Search for the beloved community: the thinking of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Univ Pr of Amer

There is a power in love that our world has not discovered yet. Jesus discovered it centuries ago. Mahatma Gandhi of India discovered it a few years ago, but most men and most women never discover it. For they believe in hitting for hitting; they believe in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth; they believe in hating for hating; but Jesus comes to us and says, 'This isn't the way.'

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jesus, Hate, Believe

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rocks, Dignity, Injustice
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.96, Beacon Press

A woman can have a smile, and a woman can have a large backside, but I have been to the mountain and I am here to tell you that when a woman has both of those things she is not to be trusted.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mountain, Backsides, Has Beens

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tired, Iron, Feet
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Speech at MIA Mass Meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. December 5, 1955.

Whatever we do, we must keep God in the forefront. Let us be Christian in all of our actions. But I want to tell you this evening that it is not enough for us to talk about love, love is one of the pivotal points of the Christian face, faith. There is another side called justice. And justice is really love in calculation. Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inspiring, Christian, Love Is
"The Montgomery Bus Boycott". Speech at Holt Street Baptist Church, www.blackpast.org. December 05, 1955.

If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fit, Willing, Dies

Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." Was not Amos an extremist for justice: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus."

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inspirational, Jesus, Body
"Why we can't wait".

Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having their legs off, and then being condemned for being a cripple.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Children, Growing Up, Pain

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace, Powerful, Cutting
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.18, Beacon Press

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Relationship, Brother, Men
Quoted in New York Journal-American, 10 Sept. 1962

Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Self Esteem, Artist, Sweepers

The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes have been frustrated by day and bewilderment by night by unbearable injustice, and burdened with the ugly weight of discrimination. Forced to live with these shameful conditions, we are tempted to become bitter and retaliate with a corresponding hate. But if this happens, the new order we seek will be little more than a duplicate of the old order. We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.

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

We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Moving, Long, Justice

We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Humility, Vision, Breaking Silence
Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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