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Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.

Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wisdom, Politics, Moral
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.200, Beacon Press

If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jobs, Should Have, Cities

Why is the church always a taillight rather than a headlight?

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Church, Headlights

If we get setbacks and if something happens where the Civil Rights Bill is watered down, for instance, if the Negro feels that he can do nothing but move from one ghetto to another and one slum to another, the despair and the disappointment will be so great that it will be very difficult to keep the struggle disciplined and nonviolent.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Disappointment, Moving, Struggle
Source: www.theatlantic.com

The unemployed, poverty-stricken white man must be made to realize that he is in the very same boat with the Negro. Together, they could exert massive pressure on the government to get jobs for all. Together, they could form a grand alliance. Together, they could merge all people for the good of all.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jobs, Men, White Man
Source: www.thedailybeast.com

I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Reality, Thinking, Political

I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice, Brotherhood, Violence
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.204, Beacon Press

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Important, Want, Achieve
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.212, Beacon Press

With the tough mind, there must also be a tender heart.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Heart, Mind, Tender Hearts

The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Church, Tools, Guides

Be sure to play "Blessed Lord" tonight - play it real pretty.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Real, Blessed, Play
Last words, 1968.

The body is God's temple, but we are to worship God, not the temple.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Body, Temples, Worship

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sweet, Passion, Silence

In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face the same unchanged conditions, the same squalor and deprivation-the only difference being that his bitterness would be even more intense, his disenchantment even more abject. Thus, in purely practical as well as moral terms, the American Negro has no rational alternative to nonviolence.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Differences, Revolution, Events

I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
America, Mankind, Audacious

Today, is a great day to make a difference for someone. 'I have a dream'.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dream, Differences, Great Day

If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tree, Today, World

Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind

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Our Generation, Eerie, Silence

I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Suffering, Ostracism, Violence

A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men, Comfort, Doe

From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Christian, Technique, Action

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. This is the calling of the sons of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response. Shall we say the odds are too great? Shall we tell them the struggle is too hard?

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

While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Important, President, President Kennedy
Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

People are often led to causes and often become committed to great ideas through persons who personify those ideas. They have to find the embodiment of the idea in flesh and blood in order to commit themselves to it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Blood, Order, Ideas

There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.

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

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