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Unfortunately, most of the major denominations still practice segregation in local churches, hospitals, schools, and other church institutions. It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is

Unfortunately, most of the major denominations still practice segregation in local churches, hospitals, schools, and other church institutions. It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, the same hour when many are standing to sing: "In Christ There Is No East Nor West.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Christian, Morning, School
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.219, Beacon Press

I" cannot reach fulfillment without "thou." The self cannot be self without other selves. Self-concern without other-concern is like a tributary that has no outward flow to the ocean.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ocean, Self, Flow

Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Moon, People, Fractions

But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ghetto, White, Television

Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Military, Citizens, Shapes
Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men, White Man, Years
Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
July, I Have A Dream Speech, Hampshire
I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Light, Darkness, Overcoming

For years, I labored with the idea of reforming the existing institutions in the South, a little change here, a little change there. Now I feel quite differently. I think you've got to have a reconstruction of the entire system, a revolution of values.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thinking, Years, Ideas

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten....America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness-justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Country, Determination, Greatness

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Summer, Autumn, Equality
I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hate, Selfish, Joy

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mother, Brother, Kings

One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mind, Body, These Days

What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inspirational, Depth, Height
Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.6, Beacon Press

[Malcolm X] had said a great deal about nonviolence, criticizing nonviolence, and saying that I approved of Negro men and women being bitten by dogs and the fire hoses, and I say, say go on and not defend yourself. I think this kind of response grew out of the build up, all of the talk about my being a sort of polished Uncle Tom.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dog, Uncles, Men
Source: www.theatlantic.com

Many people in Harlem never go out of Harlem. I mean they'd never even been downtown. And you can see how this bitterness can accumulate. Here you see people crowded and hovered up in ghettos and slums with no hope.They see no way out.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mean, Ghetto, People
Source: www.theatlantic.com

I think that we've got to come to see this. The Negro is an American.

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

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Change, Night, Light

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness — justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Country, Determination, Past

I'm thinking of love in action and not something where you say, "Love your enemies," and just leave it at that, but you love your enemies to the point that you're willing to sit-in at a lunch counter in order to help them find themselves. You're willing to go to jail.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love You, Thinking, Order
Source: www.theatlantic.com

I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Imagine, Economic, Theory
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s letter to his future wife, Coretta Scott (July 18, 1952), as quoted in "The greatest MLK speeches you never heard" by John Blake, edition.cnn.com. January 20, 2014.

Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Noble, Victim, Motive
"The Uncompromising Anti-Capitalism of Martin Luther King Jr." by Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2014.

There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential neighborhoods so long that when one of us is finally sold a home, it's already depreciated.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Home, Long, Facts
Source: www.thedailybeast.com

I feel that the time is always right to do what is right. Where progress for the Negro in America is concerned, there is a tragic misconception of time among whites. They seem to cherish a strange, irrational notion that something in the very flow of time will cure all ills.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
America, Progress, Flow
Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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