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We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is not over- only the present conflict has ceased. There will be no peace as long as we react to violence with

We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is not over- only the present conflict has ceased. There will be no peace as long as we react to violence with violence.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
War, Yoga, Winning

Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.

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Money, Evil, Electricity
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.88, Beacon Press

Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Self, Purpose, Unwavering Faith

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Integrity, Violence, Hopelessness

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Animal, Men, Practice
"All Labor Has Dignity".

Somebody must have sense enough to meet hate with love. Somebody must have sense enough to meet physical force with soul force. If we will but try this way, we will be able to change these conditions and yet at the same time win the hearts and souls of those who have kept these conditions alive a way as old as the insights of Jesus of Nazareth, as modern as the techniques of Mohandas K. Gandhi. There is another way.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jesus, Hate, Heart

Slavery in America was perpetuated not merely by human badness but also by human blindness. ... Men convinced themselves that a system that was so economically profitable must be morally justifiable. ... Science was commandeered to prove the biological inferiority of the Negro. Even philosophical logic was manipulated [exemplified by] an Aristotlian syllogism: All men are made in the image of God; God, as everyone knows, is not a Negro; Therefore, the Negro is not a man.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Money, Philosophical, Men

When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom, Cities, I Have A Dream Speech
"I Have a Dream". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Address Delivered at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. August 28, 1963.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life, Lying, Acceptance
1967 Speech at the Christian leadership conference, Atlanta, 16 Aug.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mean, Jail, Use
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.69, Beacon Press

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. But we assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves, we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Encouragement, Children, Love You
Methodist Student Leadership Conference Address, delivered 1964, Lincoln, Nebraska

We must work passionately and unrelentingly for the goal of freedom, but we must be sure that our hands are clean in the struggle. We must never struggle with falsehood, hate, or malice. We must never become bitter.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hate, Struggle, Hands
"Give Us the Ballot". Address delivered at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom (Call to Conscience), 1957.

Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kings, Truth, Unconditional Love
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.84, Beacon Press

It all boils down to this: that all life is interrelated.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life Is
Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Normal, Talent, Achieve
Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1963). “Strength to love”

Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Funeral, Black History, Today
Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed.... This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Commitment, Opposites, Practice
Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul. But I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jesus, Fighting, Voice
"Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool". Speech delivered at Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois, August 27, 1967.

Segregation...not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually...It scars the soul...It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying 'You are less than...''You are not equal to...'

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forever, Soul, Faces

To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
America, Justice, Racial Justice

We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beautiful, Men, Self
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.199, Beacon Press

Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Abnormal, Anticipation, Problem
Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Difficult, Temporary Setbacks, Hard
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.55, Beacon Press

Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn’t murder lie; it doesn’t establish truth. Violence may even murder the dishonest man, but it doesn’t murder dishonesty. Violence may go to the point of murdering the hater, but it doesn’t murder hate. It may increase hate. It is always a descending spiral leading nowhere. This is the ultimate weakness of violence: It multiplies evil and violence in the universe. It doesn’t solve any problems.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hate, Liars, Lying

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inspirational, Half, Slave
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.99, Beacon Press

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