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Jesus recognized that love is greater than like.

Jesus recognized that love is greater than like.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jesus, Love Is, Greater
Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has given me words of consolation when I needed them and a well-ordered home where #Christian love is a reality.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Christian, Loyalty, Home
Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro of America is saying he's determined to be free and he is militant enough to stand up.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
America, Community, Development
Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.82, Beacon Press

My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Real, Monsters, Aliens

But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. 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.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jesus, Hate, Love You
Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’, www.theatlantic.com. April 16, 1963.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Brutality, Survivor, Violence
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.225, Beacon Press

Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpent-like qualities is to be sentimental, anemic and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jesus, Good Life, Selfish
Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.7, Beacon Press

Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Order, Sun, Worship

Some things are right, whether nobody sees you doing them or not.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Rediscovering Lost Values". Sermon delivered at Detroit's Second Baptist Church, February 28, 1954.

Is your heart right? If your heart isn't right, fix it up today.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Heart, Today, Ifs

What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Priorities, May, Today

It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always maintain a kind of divine discontent.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Goal, Facts, Kind
Sermon at Temple Israel of Hollywood, delivered 26 February 1965

When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my brothers.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Brother, Community, Needs
Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast majority of the people on this globe are colored.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
America, People, Democracy

I have a dream... I have a dream today... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dream, Freedom, America

The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tired, Essence, Feet
Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Light, Cities, White
Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
White, Hatred, Black History

When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
White, Black History, Identity

Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Soul, Abuse, Criticism
Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.20, Beacon Press

When Negroes looked for the second phase, the realization of equality, they found that many of their white allies had quietly disappeared.... To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
White, Brotherhood, Allies

Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
White, Black, Injustice

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men, White Man, Black
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”, p.74, Beacon Press

I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dream, War, Men
Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men, Eight, Black
Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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