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We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.

We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.

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

Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Obstacles, Submissive, Surrender

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wisdom, Pain, Divorce
Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Giving, Faces, Uncertainty
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.117, Beacon Press

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inspirational, Struggle, Waiting
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.10, Beacon Press

I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by the side of the road after they have been beaten up and robbed.I want to change the Jericho road, so that everybody has an opportunity for a job, education, security, health.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jobs, Opportunity, People

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Education, Character, School
Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tyrants, Libertarian Party, Thought Provoking
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.94, Beacon Press

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Acceptance, Evil, Historical
Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be... This is the inter-related structure of reality.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Real, Destiny, Men
Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the man I could be; I may not be the man I truly can be; but praise God, I'm not the man I once was

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men, May, Want

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Brother, Men, Challenges
Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Long, Doe, Matter

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom, 4th Of July, Direct Action
"Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Direct Action, Long, Justice
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students”, p.97, Beacon Press

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men, World, Misguided

Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Children, Heart, Reason

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love, Peace, Winning
Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up & express their anger & frustration if you refuse to hear their cries. A riot is the language of the unheard.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jobs, Cutting, Frustration

We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.

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

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inspirational, Life, Dream
"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.

By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth, is essential if we are to be transformed nonconformists . . . Only through an inner spiritual transformation do we gain the strength to fight vigorously the evils of the world in a humble and loving spirit.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Christian, Spiritual, Jesus
Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.18, Beacon Press

Without justice, there can be no peace.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice, Civil Rights
Clayborne Carson, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Stanford University, Emory University (1993). “The Movement: 1964-1970”, Greenwood Pub Group

If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness, Eye, Teeth

Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Humanity, Dignity, Building
"Workers' rights are under threat across the world" by Keith Ewing, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2011.

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